Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 384 pp. 13 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Laura A.M. Stewart, Ph.D. (2003) in History, Edinburgh University, is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edinburgh University. She has produced articles on poor relief, religious debate and taxation in early modern Scotland.

Readership

Of interest to scholars, students and informed readers of early modern Scottish and British political and religious history, of the British civil wars, and of northern European urban history.

Reviews

This work received an ‘honourable mention’ for the 2007 Frank Watson Book Prize for the Best Book in Scottish History. Of the number of highly-regarded submissions for this year's competition, the panel of judges agreed that Laura Stewart’s work, although not winning the prize outright, stood out for particular attention.

List of Figures, Tables, Maps and Plates
Abbreviations and Notes
Acknowledgements
Foreword

INTRODUCTION: Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century

PART ONE: THE URBAN COMMUNITY
One: The Burgh and its Government
Two: The Burgh and its Church
Three: The Burgh and its Political Elite

PART TWO: POLITICS AND RELIGION
Four: Local and National Government before the Civil Wars
Five: A Culture of Dissent: Religion before the Civil Wars
Six: The National Covenant and the Bishops’ Wars in Edinburgh
Seven: The Collapse of Consensus: Politics in Edinburgh, 1640-52
CONCLUSION: Edinburgh and the British Civil Wars

Chronological Overview: Scotland, 1603-53
The Divisions of St Giles’ Church
Tables
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index

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