Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Conventions xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I Themes
10. 1 Exhortations and Expectations: Preaching about the Ideal Minister in Post-Reformation Scotland 15
11. 2 Ministers and the Bible in Early Modern Scotland 32
12. 3 The Protestant Clergy and Poor Relief, 1560–1660 52
13. 4 Scotland’s ‘Holy Households’: Wives and Children of Reformed Ministers 70
14. 5 Anticlericalism in Early Modern Scotland? 89
15. Part II Case Studies
16. 6 Pastors in Search of a Congregation: Clerical Calls for Reform before 1546 111
17. 7 ‘Doctrein’ or ‘Filthie Speachis’? The St Andrews Ministers and the Politics of the 1590s 130
18. 8 Clerical Culture and Island Logic in Early Modern Orkney 151
19. 9 ‘Gryt Abuse is Found in this Toune’: James Sharpe and Moral Reformation in South Leith, 1639–45 171
20. 10 Pastoral Cares, Covenant, and Courtship in John Dury’s Personal Correspondence, 1641–5 186
21. 11 ‘Wings of the Soul’: Moderating Emotion in the Preaching of Hugh Binning (1627–53) 207
22. Afterword 225
23. Bibliography 237
24. Index 257