Deportment, emotion and moderation at the Glasgow Assembly, 1638

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ID4558062
AuthorsChris R Langley (0000-0001-9566-9150, Newman University, Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume93
Issue261
Pages466-482
Publication date2020-09-17
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistorical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hisres/htaa014
OpenAlexW3043403712
LanguageEN
References cited11

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 intense bouts of emotional drama. The unrestrained nature of these outbursts underlines the complex relationship between utterance, behaviour and emotion in early modern Calvinism, and in Covenanted Scotland in particular

Aesthetics · Art · Calvinism · Drama · Literature · Moderation · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology

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