Awards

• Shortlisted for Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize 2016.
• Winner of Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize and the Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History.

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This intelligent work restores to modern scholarship the hitherto overlooked genre of liturgical interpretation within medieval and early modern religious culture, amplifies the underestimated Catholic reform movement in Scotland, and offers original contributions to the ongoing discussion about how we should understand and discuss religion in sixteenth-century Scotland... The study does shed new and considerable light on the religious culture of Renaissance Scotland and contributes to and opens up the debate on the nature of religion and religious change in sixteenth-century Scotland. * Catherine McMillan, Universtiy of Edinburgh * ... [this] book is meticulous in its research and exemplary in its use and interpretation of book history as a source for discovering areas of liturgical interpretation. It brings to light and illuminates not only the history of liturgical understanding and its adaptation in Scotland, but its different expressions and uses, and it does so by successfully unravelling complex interpretations and uses of liturgy for modern readers unfamiliar with the very concept. * Annette Hagan, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society *

Holmes call for this new methodology opens up great possibilities for future scholarship. He applies this method to Scotland as his example, but the possibilities for applying this method to other European Reformations is extensive. In so doing, it would provide a greater understanding, hopefully as it did with his Scottish example, of continuity within the changing Reformation world. Specifically continuity within countries' own medieval religious traditions. A focus on seeking continuity rather than stark change is a much needed examination in Reformation scholarship. Those interested in this call can turn to Holmes for a strong model. He provides a strong argument, well evidenced throughout. --Anglican and Episcopal History Stephen Holmes...has discovered new sources to exploit in a reassessment of the Scottish Reformation. --Sixteenth Century Journal

Stephen Holmes...has discovered new sources to exploit in a reassessment of the Scottish Reformation. --Sixteenth Century Journal

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Dr Stephen Mark Holmes is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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