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Gordon Donaldson, The Scottish Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1960)

Cambridge University Press, 1960

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Gordon Donaldson's standard academic history of the Scottish Reformation, delivered first as the Birkbeck Lectures at Cambridge, traces the argument over episcopal versus presbyterian church government from John Knox's death through the 1592 Golden Act to King James VI's later reintroduction of bishops.

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The standard academic history of the Scottish Reformation, delivered as the Birkbeck Lectures at Cambridge and published by Cambridge University Press, tier 1, matching the tier the map already gives its other foundational academic references, used here for the Golden Act's place between the 1560 Reformation settlement and James VI's later reintroduction of bishops, corroborating the statute text above.
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Used for the Golden Act's place in the wider argument over Scottish church government from 1560 to James VI's reintroduction of bishops.
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Author
Gordon Donaldson
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
URL
https://archive.org/details/scottishreformat0000dona
Source Type
academic monograph
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