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Author Bowie, Karin, author.

Title Public opinion in early modern Scotland, c.1560-1707 / Karin Bowie, University of Glasgow
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Contents 1. Protestations -- 2. Petitions -- 3. Oaths -- 4. Public communications -- 5. The inclinations of the people -- 6. The sense of the nation
Summary "This book investigates public opinion in early modern Scotland, revealing how the crown and its opponents sought to shape opinion at large, the means and language by which collective opinions were expressed and the difference this made to political outcomes. From Scotland's 1560 Reformation to the 1707 Union of the English and Scottish kingdoms, extra-institutional opinion became more relevant as religious and constitutional tensions were exacerbated by the formation of a British composite monarchy in 1603. The reworking of protestations, petitions and oaths as vehicles for collective protest and the deployment of oral, written and printed forms of persuasive communication in Scots, English and Gaelic allowed contemporaries to recognise the opinions of the people and the nation outside of authorised assemblies, while stimulating state efforts to regulate and suppress opinion at large. Gains in literacy and printing aided, but did not determine, the practice of opinion politics, challenging dominant notions of the public sphere. As well as providing a new angle on the post-Reformation period in Scotland, this study outlines a new way of historicising public opinion, providing insights for historians of early modern Scotland, Britain and Europe and scholars concerned with public opinion as a political, social and cultural phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2021)
Subject Public opinion -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century
Public opinion -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century
Politics and government
Public opinion
SUBJECT Scotland -- Politics and government -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118860
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118861
Scotland -- History -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118843
Scotland -- History -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118847
Subject Scotland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020023804
ISBN 9781108918787
1108918786
9781108911870
1108911870