Ecclesiastical record books and political legitimacy in mid-seventeenth century Scotland

Langley, Chris R. (2025). Ecclesiastical record books and political legitimacy in mid-seventeenth century Scotland. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (Early Access).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046924001519

Abstract

This article explores the ways that ecclesiastical record books produced by national and local Church courts in Scotland were bound up in the contests for legitimacy around the Scottish Revolution. The article argues that adherents to the National Covenant used paper record books and the practices that surrounded them, as well as their printed output, to legitimise their protest movement and to attack their opponents. Reconstructing the Church in paper represented an essential part of the Covenanters’ protest, reconstructing the Church after the fall of episcopacy.

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