Alan R Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 453560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan R Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3032-0086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jenna M. Schultz, National Identity and the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions which continue to exert a firm grip on public opinion. Especially in a post-devolution era, Scottish history and Scotland deserve better than this. Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 is certai…
Scotland
Scotland
Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560–1650
Considerations of poor-relief in pre-industrial Scotland have traditionally been shaped by its failure to cope with the sweeping changes brought about by the industrial and agricultural revolutions
Allen, Building Early Modern Edinburgh
Neither inside nor outside the corridors of power
This article explores early modern petitioning in the context of urban Scotland. It focuses on prosaic rather than political petitioning, on the basis that the former was more truly characteristic of what the purpose of petitioning was understood to be by most of those who engaged in it. The burghs of Scotland provide an added dimension to the history of petitioning because of the role of their national assembly (the Convention of Royal Burghs), …
S cottish Shire Elections
Historians of the S cottish parliament have paid little attention to shire elections because of an apparent lack of local source material. This article explores some of the reasons for this perception and argues that sheriff court records contain considerably more evidence than has been appreciated hitherto. It demonstrates that these records provide details of the electoral process, the regularity of elections, the numbers of electors, external …
Andrew Melville (1545–1622)
Andrew Melville (1545–1622): Writings, Reception, and Reputation. Roger A. Mason and Steven J. Reid, eds. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 306 pp. $134.95. - Volume 68 Issue 4
The Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century Climate from Scottish Ecclesiastical Records
This article argues that the records kept by Scottish church courts in the early modern period provide a rich and untapped source of information on historical weather patterns. This is primarily because severe weather events caused disruption to court meetings, and the nature of the records means that fluctuations in weather can potentially be traced across a wide geographical range and for long periods of time. Based on a sample of records from …
The Search for Salvation
Journal Article The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland, 1480–1560, by Audrey-Beth Fitch, ed. Elizabeth Ewan Get access The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland, 1480–1560, by Audrey-Beth Fitch, ed. Elizabeth Ewan (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009; pp. xviii + 206. £25). Alan R. Macdonald Alan R. Macdonald University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume…
Consultation and Consent Under James Vi
Divisions in the Scottish political community that were evident by the end of the reign of James VI have been posited as roots of the Scottish revolution of 1638 and the wars of the three kingdoms. This article argues that the disengagement of central government from the political nation at large was a key factor in this development. By demonstrating the frequency of conventions of the estates, it highlights the intensity of consultation in James…
Uncovering the legislative process in the parliaments of James VI
Using draft legislation from the period 1573–1621, this article reconstructs the Scottish parliamentary process under James VI. It examines how proposals reached parliament, how they were amended and approved in committee and before the full house, and what was done with the drafts after a parliamentary session. It argues that parliament operated with consistency, that significant amendment even of crown-sponsored legislation was possible and tha…
Voting in the Scottish Parliament before 1639
Traditionally, historians have been dismissive of the significance of voting in the Scottish parliament before the Covenanting revolution of 1638 and its first parliament in 1639–41. Recent, more detailed research has undermined many previous assumptions about the nature and procedures of parliament. Drawing upon local and national records, this article explores the evidence for the incidence of enumerated divisions as part of the decision-making…
The Politics of the Principality
James VI and I
Historians remain captivated by the man who, by dynastic accident rather than design, founded Britain. Perhaps it is because his vision of one kingdom with a shared religion, consisting of one people who thought of themselves as Britons, now looks even further from fulfilment than ever. The achievements and legacy of James VI and I are as contested as they have ever been, and this splendid collection of essays adds considerably to our understandi…
Mary Queen of Scots
Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700
A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland 1500-1920
The first modern history of Scottish woodlands explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Includes 69 illustrations, in both b/w and colour
Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland
James Vi and I, the Church of Scotland, and British Ecclesiastical Convergence
Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James VI and I sought ‘congruity’ between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland, rather than British ecclesiastical union or the anglicanization of all the churches. It is argued here that the asymmetry of the changes he sought in Scotland and England has been underplayed and that this has masked his choice of a fundamentally Anglican model for the Bri…
Dawson, Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots
Todd, Culture of Protestantism
Mapmaker or Minister? Timothy Pont's Ecclesiastical Context
James VI and I
Historians remain captivated by the man who, by dynastic accident rather than design, founded Britain. Perhaps it is because his vision of one kingdom with a shared religion, consisting of one people who thought of themselves as Britons, now looks even further from fulfilment than ever. The achievements and legacy of James VI and I are as contested as they have ever been, and this splendid collection of essays adds considerably to our understandi…
James Vi and I, the Church of Scotland, and British Ecclesiastical Convergence
Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James VI and I sought ‘congruity’ between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland, rather than British ecclesiastical union or the anglicanization of all the churches. It is argued here that the asymmetry of the changes he sought in Scotland and England has been underplayed and that this has masked his choice of a fundamentally Anglican model for the Bri…
Consultation and Consent Under James Vi
Divisions in the Scottish political community that were evident by the end of the reign of James VI have been posited as roots of the Scottish revolution of 1638 and the wars of the three kingdoms. This article argues that the disengagement of central government from the political nation at large was a key factor in this development. By demonstrating the frequency of conventions of the estates, it highlights the intensity of consultation in James…
Ecclesiastical Representation in Parliament in Post-Reformation Scotland
Jean Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian religion , wrote that ‘there is a twofold government of man; one aspect is spiritual...the second is political.... There are in man, so to speak, two worlds, over which different kings and different laws have authority’. He emphasised this further by stating that ‘we must keep in mind that distinction which we previously laid down so that we do not (as commonly happens) unwisely mingle these two, wh…
S cottish Shire Elections
Historians of the S cottish parliament have paid little attention to shire elections because of an apparent lack of local source material. This article explores some of the reasons for this perception and argues that sheriff court records contain considerably more evidence than has been appreciated hitherto. It demonstrates that these records provide details of the electoral process, the regularity of elections, the numbers of electors, external …
The Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century Climate from Scottish Ecclesiastical Records
This article argues that the records kept by Scottish church courts in the early modern period provide a rich and untapped source of information on historical weather patterns. This is primarily because severe weather events caused disruption to court meetings, and the nature of the records means that fluctuations in weather can potentially be traced across a wide geographical range and for long periods of time. Based on a sample of records from …
David Calderwood
David Calderwood
'Both Profitable and Pleasant'
Ecclesiastical Representation in Parliament in Post-Reformation Scotland
Jean Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian religion , wrote that ‘there is a twofold government of man; one aspect is spiritual...the second is political.... There are in man, so to speak, two worlds, over which different kings and different laws have authority’. He emphasised this further by stating that ‘we must keep in mind that distinction which we previously laid down so that we do not (as commonly happens) unwisely mingle these two, wh…
Tedious to rehers’? Parliament and locality in Scotland c. 1500–1651
In this article Alan MacDonald challenges the generally accepted view that in the early modern meetings of the Scottish estates, the burgh representatives played only a marginal and subordinate role and that their main institutional activity was confined to the separate meetings of the Convention of Royal Burghs. The article is based on an analysis of the recorded participation in parliaments of the seven parliamentary burghs of North-East Fife d…
Mapmaker or Minister? Timothy Pont's Ecclesiastical Context
Deliberative Processes in Parliament c . 1567–1639
The Scottish Parliament was a unicameral institution, normally consist ing of three, but sometimes four, estates.1 These two basic attributes can easily be seen to have existed in a state of tension. The key elements of Parliament the estates of clergy, nobles, burgesses and (after 1587) lairds or 'barons' -were, to varying degrees, separate and self-conscious components of society. Yet they came together to make laws for Scotland in one chamber.…
Mullan, Scottish Puritanism, 1590–1638
Todd, Culture of Protestantism
Dawson, Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots
Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland
James Vi and I, the Church of Scotland, and British Ecclesiastical Convergence
Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James VI and I sought ‘congruity’ between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland, rather than British ecclesiastical union or the anglicanization of all the churches. It is argued here that the asymmetry of the changes he sought in Scotland and England has been underplayed and that this has masked his choice of a fundamentally Anglican model for the Bri…
Mary Queen of Scots
Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700
A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland 1500-1920
The first modern history of Scottish woodlands explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Includes 69 illustrations, in both b/w and colour
The Politics of the Principality
James VI and I
Historians remain captivated by the man who, by dynastic accident rather than design, founded Britain. Perhaps it is because his vision of one kingdom with a shared religion, consisting of one people who thought of themselves as Britons, now looks even further from fulfilment than ever. The achievements and legacy of James VI and I are as contested as they have ever been, and this splendid collection of essays adds considerably to our understandi…
Voting in the Scottish Parliament before 1639
Traditionally, historians have been dismissive of the significance of voting in the Scottish parliament before the Covenanting revolution of 1638 and its first parliament in 1639–41. Recent, more detailed research has undermined many previous assumptions about the nature and procedures of parliament. Drawing upon local and national records, this article explores the evidence for the incidence of enumerated divisions as part of the decision-making…
The Search for Salvation
Journal Article The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland, 1480–1560, by Audrey-Beth Fitch, ed. Elizabeth Ewan Get access The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland, 1480–1560, by Audrey-Beth Fitch, ed. Elizabeth Ewan (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009; pp. xviii + 206. £25). Alan R. Macdonald Alan R. Macdonald University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume…
Consultation and Consent Under James Vi
Divisions in the Scottish political community that were evident by the end of the reign of James VI have been posited as roots of the Scottish revolution of 1638 and the wars of the three kingdoms. This article argues that the disengagement of central government from the political nation at large was a key factor in this development. By demonstrating the frequency of conventions of the estates, it highlights the intensity of consultation in James…
Uncovering the legislative process in the parliaments of James VI
Using draft legislation from the period 1573–1621, this article reconstructs the Scottish parliamentary process under James VI. It examines how proposals reached parliament, how they were amended and approved in committee and before the full house, and what was done with the drafts after a parliamentary session. It argues that parliament operated with consistency, that significant amendment even of crown-sponsored legislation was possible and tha…
The Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century Climate from Scottish Ecclesiastical Records
This article argues that the records kept by Scottish church courts in the early modern period provide a rich and untapped source of information on historical weather patterns. This is primarily because severe weather events caused disruption to court meetings, and the nature of the records means that fluctuations in weather can potentially be traced across a wide geographical range and for long periods of time. Based on a sample of records from …
S cottish Shire Elections
Historians of the S cottish parliament have paid little attention to shire elections because of an apparent lack of local source material. This article explores some of the reasons for this perception and argues that sheriff court records contain considerably more evidence than has been appreciated hitherto. It demonstrates that these records provide details of the electoral process, the regularity of elections, the numbers of electors, external …
Andrew Melville (1545–1622)
Andrew Melville (1545–1622): Writings, Reception, and Reputation. Roger A. Mason and Steven J. Reid, eds. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xv + 306 pp. $134.95. - Volume 68 Issue 4
Neither inside nor outside the corridors of power
This article explores early modern petitioning in the context of urban Scotland. It focuses on prosaic rather than political petitioning, on the basis that the former was more truly characteristic of what the purpose of petitioning was understood to be by most of those who engaged in it. The burghs of Scotland provide an added dimension to the history of petitioning because of the role of their national assembly (the Convention of Royal Burghs), …
Scotland
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