2024-03-28T19:39:39Zhttps://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/requestoai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/41152019-07-01T10:12:21Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39com_10023_83com_10023_25com_10023_134col_10023_450col_10023_85col_10023_169
Propaganda and persuasion in the early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557
Tapscott, Elizabeth L.
Mason, Roger A.
Scottish Reformation
Academic discourse
Courtly entertainments
Printing press
Public performance
Preaching
Pedagogical tools
Vernacular Bibles
Catechism
James V
Patrick Hamilton
Sir David Lindsay of the Mount
John Knox
George Wishart
Alexander Alesius
Murdoch Nisbet
The richt vay to the Kingdome of Heuien
George Buchanan
Godly fit
Rough wooings
BR385.T2
Reformation--Scotland
Propaganda--Scotland
Christian literature, English--Protestant authors--History and criticism
Christian education--Scotland--History--16th century
Lindsay, David, Sir, fl. 1490-1555
The decades before the Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 witnessed the unprecedented use of a range of different media to disseminate the Protestant message and to shape beliefs and attitudes. By placing these works within their historical context, this thesis explores the ways in which various media – academic discourse, courtly entertainments, printed poetry, public performances, preaching and pedagogical tools – were employed by evangelical and Protestant reformers to persuade and/or educate different audiences within sixteenth-century Scottish society. The thematic approach examines not only how the reformist message was packaged, but how the movement itself and its persuasive agenda developed, revealing the ways in which it appealed to ever broader circles of Scottish society.
In their efforts to bring about religious change, the reformers capitalised on a number of traditional media, while using different media to address different audiences. Hoping to initiate reform from within Church institutions, the reformers first addressed their appeals to the kingdom’s educated elite. When their attempts at reasoned academic discourse met with resistance, they turned their attention to the monarch, James V, and the royal court. Reformers within the court utilised courtly entertainments intended to amuse the royal circle and to influence the young king to oversee the reformation of religion within his realm. When, following James’s untimely death in 1542, the throne passed to his infant daughter, the reformers took advantage of the period of uncertainty that accompanied the minority. Through the relatively new technology of print, David Lindsay’s poetry and English propaganda presented the reformist message to audiences beyond the kingdom’s elite. Lindsay and other reformers also exploited the oral media of religious theatre in public spaces, while preaching was one of the most theologically significant, though under-researched, means of disseminating the reformist message. In addition to works intended to convert, the reformers also recognised the need for literature to edify the already converted. To this end, they produced pedagogical tools for use in individual and group devotions. Through the examination of these various media of persuasion, this study contributes to our understanding of the means by which reformed ideas were disseminated in Scotland, as well as the development of the reformist movement before 1560.
2013-11-30
2013-10-23T11:58:55Z
2013-10-23T11:58:55Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4115
en
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
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249
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
Reformation Studies Institute and the Institute of Scottish Historical Research
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/88682019-04-01T11:11:08Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39col_10023_450
Spines of the thistle : the popular constituency of the Jacobite Rising in 1745-6
Layne, Darren S.
Murdoch, Steve
DA814.5L2
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746--Social aspects
Scotland--Social conditions--18th century
This thesis examines the social record of popular Jacobitism during the 1745 Rising as expressed through its plebeian constituency. Such an assessment fills in the gaps largely ignored by scholars of the Jacobite period, who instead tend to concentrate upon the elites and the political and doctrinal ideologies espoused by influential gentry. Using a purpose-built database to compile and analyse a large number of resources including lists of prisoners, trial records, muster rolls, and government papers, a prosopographical survey of over 15,000 persona entries is presented. The study looks at four thematic aspects of popular Jacobitism, which describe motivation, constituency, recruitment, and consequences. These combine to provide a social profile of the ‘lesser sort’ of those persons involved in rebellion against the Hanoverian government, whether martial or civilian. The results suggest that practicality was a major influence in drawing the common people into civil war, and that the ideological tenets of Jacobitism, much diluted by 1745, took a backseat to issues of necessity. Widespread ambivalence to the political climate made harsh recruiting methods necessary, and rampant desertion reinforced that need until the army’s defeat at Culloden. Both the willing and unwilling supporters of Charles Edward Stuart’s landing in Scotland represented local, national, and international interests and stretched across class divides. Civilians contributed to the effort along with the soldiers, but limited martial support both domestic and foreign was insufficient to sustain the Stuart-sanctioned coup and the exiled dynasty’s hopes for a subsequent restoration. Understanding that weak punitive measures after 1715 enabled yet another rising thirty years later, the government’s response after Culloden was swift and brutal. Though its campaigns of containment and suppression strained the resources of the judicial system, effective punishment was seen as a necessity, dominating British policy even as the state was involved in a larger war on the Continent. This thesis demonstrates that plebeians used by the Jacobite elites were ill-equipped to support the strategies of the cause, yet they ultimately bore the brunt of the reparations for treasonous expressions, however questionable their commitment may have been.
2016-04-19
2016-05-25T14:19:24Z
2016-05-25T14:19:24Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
uk.bl.ethos.687026
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8868
en
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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278
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/231742021-07-21T14:49:00Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39com_10023_74com_10023_25com_10023_445col_10023_450col_10023_77col_10023_447
Livery and dule : dressing life and death in the late medieval Scottish royal household
Westerhof Nyman, Perin Joy
Brown, Michael Hunter
Stevenson, Katie
Dress history
Court culture
Clothing
Pageantry
Royal administration
Funerals
Scottish kingship
James IV
James V
Margaret Tudor
David Lindsay of the Mount
GT752.W4
Clothing and dress--Scotland--History
Scotland--Kings and rulers
Scotland--Court and courtiers--Clothing
This thesis examines the use of meaningful and symbolic dress at the late medieval Scottish royal court, arguing that group displays of colour-coded clothing, exemplified by livery and mourning dress, played key political roles both in the day-to-day functioning of the court and royal household and at large-scale ceremonial events. The discussion takes an interdisciplinary approach to a wide body of source types, and considers evidence from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, concluding with the funeral of James V in 1543. Although a number of Scottish historians have considered the political implications of individual sixteenth-century monarchs’ wardrobes, there has been little focused discussion of the dress of the wider household and court before the mid-sixteenth century. This thesis shows that dress was employed throughout the late medieval period and the early sixteenth century as a means of visually defining the structures of the household and parts of the court, the roles of the people within them, and their relationships to each other and to the monarch. It argues that clothing’s ability to express constructed meaning and identity made it a powerful and versatile tool. Examinations of livery and heraldic dress, funereal dress and textile displays, and mourning dress are used to explore the employment of clothing by the Scottish crown, nobility, and household officials. These discussions culminate in three case studies of the finely-tuned displays of liveries and mourning that were organised for the funerals of Scottish monarchs Madeleine de Valois, Margaret Tudor, and James V. By showing that meaningful dress was a core element in the expression of interpersonal and political discourse at all levels of court life, and by making the technical definitions, forms, functions, and associated meanings of late medieval Scottish dress more accessible, this thesis seeks to facilitate the wider integration of dress evidence into Scottish historical research.
2021-07-01
2021-05-13T09:49:28Z
2021-05-13T09:49:28Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23174
https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/64
en
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
2026-03-03
Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 3rd March 2026
xiii, 304 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies ; Institute of Scottish Historical Research
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/18822019-07-01T10:14:51Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39com_10023_83com_10023_25col_10023_450col_10023_85
Education and episcopacy : the universities of Scotland in the fifteenth century
Woodman, Isla
Mason, Roger A.
American Alumni Association, University of St Andrews
St Andrews Local History Foundation (The Burnwynd Trust)
Universities of Scotland -- Fifteenth century
Higher education in medieval Scotland
Degree holding
Politics of higher education -- Fifteenth and sixteenth century Scotland
Scottish episcopate, 1360-1560
LA658.7W77
Universities and colleges--Scotland--History--15th century
Scotland--Church history--15th century
Scholars, Medieval--Scotland--History--To 1500
Educational provision in Scotland was revolutionised in the fifteenth century through the foundation of three universities, or studia generale, at St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen. These institutions can be viewed as part of the general expansion in higher education across Europe from the late-fourteenth century, which saw the establishment of many new centres of learning, often intended to serve local needs. Their impact on Scotland ought to have been profound; in theory, they removed the need for its scholars to continue to seek higher education at the universities of England or the continent.
Scotland’s fifteenth-century universities were essentially episcopal foundations, formally instituted by bishops within the cathedral cities of their dioceses, designed to meet the educational needs and career aspirations of the clergy. They are not entirely neglected subjects; the previous generation of university historians – including A. Dunlop, J. Durkan and L. J. Macfarlane – did much to recover the institutional, organisational and curricular developments that shaped their character. Less well explored, are the over-arching political themes that influenced the evolution of university provision in fifteenth-century Scotland as a whole. Similarly under-researched, is the impact of these foundations on the scholarly community, and society more generally.
This thesis explores these comparatively neglected themes in two parts. Part I presents a short narrative, offering a more politically sensitive interpretation of the introduction and expansion of higher educational provision in Scotland. Part II explores the impact of these foundations on Scottish scholars. The nature of extant sources inhibits reconstruction of the full extent of their influence on student numbers and patterns of university attendance. Instead, Part II presents a thorough quantitative and qualitative prosopographical study of the Scottish episcopate within the context of this embryonic era of university provision in Scotland. In so doing, this thesis offers new insights into a neglected aspect of contemporary clerical culture as well as the politics of fifteenth-century academic learning.
2011-06-23
2011-06-22T08:41:07Z
2011-06-22T08:41:07Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1882
en
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
application/pdf
302
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
Institute of Scottish Historical Research
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/55702019-10-15T02:04:38Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39com_10023_83com_10023_25col_10023_450col_10023_85
To walk upon the grass : the impact of the University of St Andrews' Lady Literate in Arts, 1877-1892
Smith, Elisabeth Margaret
Allan, David
University
Education
Women
St Andrews
19th century
Higher education
LC2046.S6
Women--Education (Higher)--Great Britain--History--19th century
University of St Andrews--History--19th century
Distance learning--Great Britain--History--19th century
In 1877 the University of St Andrews initiated a unique qualification, the Lady Literate in Arts, which
came into existence initially as the LA, the Literate in Arts, a higher certificate available to women
only. Awarded by examination but as a result of a programme of distance learning, it was conceived
and explicitly promoted as a degree-level qualification at a time when women had no access to
matriculation at Scottish universities and little anywhere in the United Kingdom. From small
beginnings it expanded both in numbers of candidates and in spread of subjects and it lasted until
the early 1930s by which time over 36,000 examinations had been taken and more than 5,000
women had completed the course. The scheme had emerged in response to various needs and
external pressures which shaped its character. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the nature and
achievements of the LLA in its first fifteen years and to establish its place within the wider
movement for female equality of status and opportunity which developed in the later decades of the
nineteenth century.
The conditions under which the university introduced the LLA, its reasons for doing so, the nature of
the qualification, its progress and development in the years before 1892 when women were
admitted to Scottish universities as undergraduates and the consequences for the university itself
are all examined in detail. The geographical and social origins and the educational backgrounds of
the candidates themselves are analysed along with their age structure, their uptake of LLA subjects
and the completion rates for the award. All of these are considered against the background of the
students' later careers and life experiences.
This thesis aims to discover the extent to which the LLA was influential in shaping the lives of its
participants and in advancing the broader case for female higher education. It seeks to establish for
the first time the contribution that St Andrews LLA women made to society at large and to the wider
movement for female emancipation.
2014
2014-10-21T15:51:00Z
2014-10-21T15:51:00Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5570
en
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viii, 217 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/195342021-07-23T10:50:53Zcom_10023_448com_10023_39com_10023_80com_10023_25col_10023_450col_10023_82
‘This distressing malady’ : childbirth and mental illness in Scotland 1820 – 1930
Campbell, Morag Allan
Fyfe, Aileen
Easterby-Smith, Sarah
Strathmartine Trust (Great Britain)
Scotland
19th century
Early 20th century
Mental health
Women's health
Asylums
Women's healthcare
Postpartum mental health
Puerperal insanity
Motherhood
Child murder
Institutional care
Communities
RG588.C2
Women--Mental health--Scotland--History--19th century
Women--Mental health--Scotland--History--20th century
Women--Institutional care--Scotland
Postpartum psychiatric disorders--Scotland
Mental illness in pregnancy
Motherhood--Scotland--History--19th century
Motherhood--Scotland--History--20th century
My thesis explores the experiences of women who suffered from mental disorder related to childbirth and pregnancy, looking in particular at Dundee, Fife and Forfarshire in the north-east of Scotland, during the period 1820 to 1930. This study offers a new perspective on women’s lives, wellbeing and healthcare in this region by examining at a local level the ideas surrounding postpartum mental illness.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the term ‘puerperal insanity’ was widely known and much discussed and deliberated in medical literature. However, the day-to-day care and treatment of postpartum women suffering from mental disorder was not straightforward. My findings demonstrate that the diagnosis and treatment of postpartum mental illness in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scotland was a complex issue influenced as much by social and economic factors as by medical ideas.
Using records from the chartered asylums at Montrose and Dundee, court and prison records, and newspaper accounts, I have uncovered how childbearing-related mental illness was recognised, accepted and supported by families, neighbours, friends and authorities. Within the asylum, I have revealed how physicians assessed their patients’ characters and status as much as their physical conditions, but nevertheless in many cases provided positive medical care and much-needed rest and nourishment. In criminal cases, my study has looked beyond legislation and verdicts to reveal a positive and constructive approach to the care and custody of women who had committed child murder.
Awareness of postpartum mental illness in the community was developed through a collaboration of medical and lay knowledge, acquired through interactions between physicians, families and communities, and filtered through pre-existing understandings and ideas. I have identified a lay understanding and accepted discourse which guided the ideas and actions of friends, family and community in dealing with the problems associated with mental illness among postpartum women.
2020-06-25
2020-02-26T10:55:42Z
2020-02-26T10:55:42Z
Thesis
Doctoral
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19534
https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-19534
en
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
application/pdf
xviii, 344 p.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews
Institute of Scottish Historical Research