Chris R Langley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris R Langley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris R |
| FAMILY NAME | Langley |
| SIGNATURE | LANGLEY C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newman University, Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9566-9150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecclesiastical Record Books and Political Legitimacy in Mid Seventeenth-Century Scotland
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…
Clerical Old Age and the Forming of Rites of Passage in Early Modern Scotland
This article investigates the rites that marked the end of a clerical career in early modern Scotland. It discusses what would take place when a minister had accepted that he was too old for his charge. It explores the ways in which ministers described their aging bodies, the impact of age on their vocation and how parishioners observed them. The article argues that the bureaucratic machinery devised to address the challenges of clerical old age …
Barclay, Caritas
Barclay, Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self." Scottish Historical Review, 102(1), pp. 175–176
Thomas M. Green, The Spiritual Jurisdiction in Reformation Scotland
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Parish Politics and Godly Agitation in Late Interregnum Scotland
Following the English invasion of Scotland in July 1650, ministers and laymen in the Church of Scotland splintered between Protester and Resolutioner factions: The Protesters argued that the Church of Scotland required further moral reformation in order to appease a vengeful God, and the Resolutioners were more content to accept the reintegration of former royalists into places of trust following the civil wars. This article explores the profound…
Mapping the Scottish Reformation
This article introduces readers to Mapping the Scottish Reformation, a digital prosopography of ministers who served in the Church of Scotland between the Reformation Parliament of 1560 to the Revolution in 1689. By extracting data from thousands of pages of ecclesiastical court records held by the National Records of Scotland, Mapping the Scottish Reformation (MSR) tracks clerical careers, showing where they were educated, how they moved between…
Deportment, emotion and moderation at the Glasgow Assembly, 1638
This article explores emotion and behaviour at the Glasgow Assembly in 1638. Whereas the assembly is usually viewed as a masterclass of gerrymandering and control, this article investigates the ways in which participants at the assembly understood the importance of how they behaved, as well as what they said. While both Covenanters and supporters of the Crown were eager to emphasize the ways they moderated their behaviour, they also perpetrated i…
Alexander D. Campbell, The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602–1662)
The further correspondence of William Laud
This Great Firebrand’
This book’s argument is deceptively simple: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury between 1633 and his execution in 1645, was ‘as heavily involved in the affairs of the Scottish Church as it was possible to be’ (p. 12). This runs counter to John Morrill’s assertion that Laud was in no way trying to Anglicise the Church of Scotland or the recent findings of Joong-Lak Kim that have sought to play down Laud’s role in the Scottish Church (p. 6). Leo…
In the execution of his office”
Consistorial discipline was central to the application of Reformed Christianity in early-modern Scotland. This article argues that both elders and deacons were frequently drawn into personal disputes that were more communal than theological. Neighbours’ complaints served to emphasise Reformed ideals of honesty and good reputation but could also undermine the foundations of Reformed discipline. In response, consistories across Scotland came to ide…
MacKenzie, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643–1663
MacKenzie, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643–1663." Scottish Historical Review, 97(2), pp. 227–228
The Crisis of British Protestantism
The Westminster Assembly remains an important landmark in the development of anglophone Protestantism, but historians approach it with trepidation. In common with a great many Church councils before and since, the Assembly was a lumbering monolith. It involved vast numbers of leading churchmen for almost a decade between 1643 and 1652. The Assembly’s remit was deceptively simple: to reform the Church of England to a greater Reformed purity. Its d…
Lying Sick to Die
This paper explores the interaction between informal networks of care and ecclesiastical authorities in seventeenth-century Scotland. Previously, studies have identified poor relief and local care as a point of contention where authorities aggressively applied socioreligious reformation and created considerable local tension. This essay argues that the kirk of Scotland could not implement a single, nationwide, policy to radically alter palliative…
Whitley, A Great Grievance
Whitley, A Great Grievance: Ecclesiastical Lay Patronage in Scotland until 1750." Scottish Historical Review, 96(1), pp. 126–127
Sheltering under the Covenant
The Irish rebellion of October 1641 drove large numbers of clerical migrants across the Irish Sea to Scotland. These ministers brought news of protestantism's plight in Ireland, petitions for charitable aid and, in many cases, requests to work as preachers in Scotland. Historians have long recognised the social and religious links between Ireland and Scotland in the mid-seventeenth century and have seen these men as part of a wider effort to esta…
Caring for Soldiers, Veterans and Families in Scotland, 1638–1651
Scotland was overwhelmed with injured servicemen and their families during the wars of the 1640s. Centralized attempts to help support war veterans and, later, their families were ambitious but continued to rely upon local church sessions to collect, distribute and monitor charitable payments. Using local parish‐based manuscript material, this article shows how this system proved remarkably successful in providing financial support with one strik…
Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England
Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c. 1540–1660
A ciência e a agenda empresarial
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Caring for Soldiers, Veterans and Families in Scotland, 1638–1651
Scotland was overwhelmed with injured servicemen and their families during the wars of the 1640s. Centralized attempts to help support war veterans and, later, their families were ambitious but continued to rely upon local church sessions to collect, distribute and monitor charitable payments. Using local parish‐based manuscript material, this article shows how this system proved remarkably successful in providing financial support with one strik…
A ciência e a agenda empresarial
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c. 1540–1660
Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England
Lying Sick to Die
This paper explores the interaction between informal networks of care and ecclesiastical authorities in seventeenth-century Scotland. Previously, studies have identified poor relief and local care as a point of contention where authorities aggressively applied socioreligious reformation and created considerable local tension. This essay argues that the kirk of Scotland could not implement a single, nationwide, policy to radically alter palliative…
Whitley, A Great Grievance
Whitley, A Great Grievance: Ecclesiastical Lay Patronage in Scotland until 1750." Scottish Historical Review, 96(1), pp. 126–127
Sheltering under the Covenant
The Irish rebellion of October 1641 drove large numbers of clerical migrants across the Irish Sea to Scotland. These ministers brought news of protestantism's plight in Ireland, petitions for charitable aid and, in many cases, requests to work as preachers in Scotland. Historians have long recognised the social and religious links between Ireland and Scotland in the mid-seventeenth century and have seen these men as part of a wider effort to esta…
Caring for Soldiers, Veterans and Families in Scotland, 1638–1651
Scotland was overwhelmed with injured servicemen and their families during the wars of the 1640s. Centralized attempts to help support war veterans and, later, their families were ambitious but continued to rely upon local church sessions to collect, distribute and monitor charitable payments. Using local parish‐based manuscript material, this article shows how this system proved remarkably successful in providing financial support with one strik…
In the execution of his office”
Consistorial discipline was central to the application of Reformed Christianity in early-modern Scotland. This article argues that both elders and deacons were frequently drawn into personal disputes that were more communal than theological. Neighbours’ complaints served to emphasise Reformed ideals of honesty and good reputation but could also undermine the foundations of Reformed discipline. In response, consistories across Scotland came to ide…
MacKenzie, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643–1663
MacKenzie, The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643–1663." Scottish Historical Review, 97(2), pp. 227–228
The Crisis of British Protestantism
The Westminster Assembly remains an important landmark in the development of anglophone Protestantism, but historians approach it with trepidation. In common with a great many Church councils before and since, the Assembly was a lumbering monolith. It involved vast numbers of leading churchmen for almost a decade between 1643 and 1652. The Assembly’s remit was deceptively simple: to reform the Church of England to a greater Reformed purity. Its d…
Alexander D. Campbell, The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602–1662)
The further correspondence of William Laud
This Great Firebrand’
This book’s argument is deceptively simple: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury between 1633 and his execution in 1645, was ‘as heavily involved in the affairs of the Scottish Church as it was possible to be’ (p. 12). This runs counter to John Morrill’s assertion that Laud was in no way trying to Anglicise the Church of Scotland or the recent findings of Joong-Lak Kim that have sought to play down Laud’s role in the Scottish Church (p. 6). Leo…
Mapping the Scottish Reformation
This article introduces readers to Mapping the Scottish Reformation, a digital prosopography of ministers who served in the Church of Scotland between the Reformation Parliament of 1560 to the Revolution in 1689. By extracting data from thousands of pages of ecclesiastical court records held by the National Records of Scotland, Mapping the Scottish Reformation (MSR) tracks clerical careers, showing where they were educated, how they moved between…
Deportment, emotion and moderation at the Glasgow Assembly, 1638
This article explores emotion and behaviour at the Glasgow Assembly in 1638. Whereas the assembly is usually viewed as a masterclass of gerrymandering and control, this article investigates the ways in which participants at the assembly understood the importance of how they behaved, as well as what they said. While both Covenanters and supporters of the Crown were eager to emphasize the ways they moderated their behaviour, they also perpetrated i…
Thomas M. Green, The Spiritual Jurisdiction in Reformation Scotland
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Parish Politics and Godly Agitation in Late Interregnum Scotland
Following the English invasion of Scotland in July 1650, ministers and laymen in the Church of Scotland splintered between Protester and Resolutioner factions: The Protesters argued that the Church of Scotland required further moral reformation in order to appease a vengeful God, and the Resolutioners were more content to accept the reintegration of former royalists into places of trust following the civil wars. This article explores the profound…
Clerical Old Age and the Forming of Rites of Passage in Early Modern Scotland
This article investigates the rites that marked the end of a clerical career in early modern Scotland. It discusses what would take place when a minister had accepted that he was too old for his charge. It explores the ways in which ministers described their aging bodies, the impact of age on their vocation and how parishioners observed them. The article argues that the bureaucratic machinery devised to address the challenges of clerical old age …
Barclay, Caritas
Barclay, Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self." Scottish Historical Review, 102(1), pp. 175–176
Ecclesiastical Record Books and Political Legitimacy in Mid Seventeenth-Century Scotland
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…
History (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (12 works) · History (12 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (11 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (7 works)