The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Scottish Presbyterian pledges to advance their beliefs in the face of episcopacy and Roman Catholicism, and their impact across Britain and Ireland.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the bonds that Scottish Presbyterians made between themselves and their monarchs in the 16th and 17th Centuries, to maintain their form of worship. These covenants bound James VI of Scotland to support Presbyterians yet when he became James I he was also expected to support episcopacy. That tension came to a head under Charles I who found himself on the losing side of a war with the Covenanters, who later supported Parliament before backing the future Charles II after he had pledged to support them. Once in power, Charles II failed to deliver the religious settlement the Covenanters wanted, and set about repressing them violently. Those who refused to renounce the covenants were persecuted in what became known as The Killing Times, as reflected in the image above.
With
Roger Mason
Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews
Laura Stewart
Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of York
And
Scott Spurlock
Professor of Scottish and Early Modern Christianities at the University of Glasgow
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
Michael J. Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015), especially 鈥楽cottish politics, 1644-1651鈥� by Laura A.M. Stewart
Keith M. Brown, Kingdom or Province? Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603-1715 (Palgrave, 1992)
Allan I. Macinnes,听Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement,听1625鈥�1641 (John Donald Publishers, 1991)
Allan I. Macinnes, The British Revolutions, 1629-1660 (Red Globe Press, 2004)
Walter Makey,听The Church of the Covenant 1637 鈥� 1651: Revolution and Social Change in Scotland听(John Donald Publishers, 1979)
John Morrill (ed.), The Scottish National Covenant in its British Context 1638-51听(Edinburgh University Press, 1990)
R. Scott Spurlock,听Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion, 1650 -- 1660听(John Donald Publishers, 2007)
David Stevenson,听The Scottish Revolution, 1637-44听(John Donald Publishers, 1973)
David Stevenson,听Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland, 1644 -- 1651听(John Donald Publishers, 2003)
Laura A.M. Stewart,听Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617 -- 53听(Brill, 2006)
Laura A.M. Stewart, Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Jenny Wormald (ed), The Seventeenth Century: Short Oxford History of the British Isles (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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