The Bishops' Wars

The Bishops' Wars
Author: Mark Charles Fissel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1994-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521466868

A study of Charles I's two unsuccessful attempts to bring religious conformity to Scotland.

Bishops and Covenanters

Bishops and Covenanters
Author: Ann Shukman
Publisher: Birlinn Limited
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781906566586

Why did the young Protestant monarch William of Orange fail to make his mark on Scotland? How did a particularly hard-line 'Protester' branch of Presbyterianism (the last off-shoot of the Convenanting movement) become the established Church in Scotland? And how did it come about that Scotland suffered a kind of 'cultural revolution' after the ...