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The strengths of Langley's work lie in its readability. The prose is engaging and the various specific examples allow for connection with the individuals living in the distant past. He takes a broad concept-'care'-and makes it more digestible. Charlotte Holmes, in: Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 2 (August, 2021), pp. 287-288. This book provides a significant step forward in early modern Scottish social history. However it also has important implications for the history of the Reformed Kirk in demonstrating that kirk sessions did not seek to marginalise, downgrade, or control informal care. John McCallum, Nottingham Trent University. In: Scottish Church History, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2021), pp. 171-173.

The strengths of Langley's work lie in its readability. The prose is engaging and the various specific examples allow for connection with the individuals living in the distant past. He takes a broad concept-'care'-and makes it more digestible. Scottish Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 2, August, 2021 One of the major achievements of this book is that it draws richly on a wide variety of approaches and insights from English and European scholarship to open a window into this world for Scotland, while at the same time unravelling the relationship between informal aid and the Reformed disciplinary system whose institutions provide the distinctive Scottish evidence for the subject. It is thus an important book not just for those interested in poverty and charity, but also the Reformation. It would be interesting to see how the practices and networks of care themselves may or may not have changed over a longer period than this books' seventeenth-century [...]. But this is a question for future research - all of which will need to take Cultures of Care as its starting-point. Scottish Church History, Volume 50, Issue 2, October, 2021

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Chris R. Langley, Ph.D. (2012, University of Aberdeen), is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History at Newman University, Birmingham. He is the author of Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638-1660.

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