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Social Science and the Reconstruction of the Scottish Past - The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By I. B. Cowan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. x + 244. $26.50 (cloth). - Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent, 1442–1603. By Jenny Wormald. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1985. Pp. ix + 475. - Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century. By David Stevenson. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 324.

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The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By I. B. Cowan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. x + 244. $26.50 (cloth).
Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent, 1442–1603. By Jenny Wormald. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1985. Pp. ix + 475.
Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century. By David Stevenson. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 324.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 354 - 360
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References

1 For those unfamiliar with Scots, the line may be “translated” as, “Those authors are of no worth who say that all people far from the sun are barbarous and miserable.”

2 Donaldson, Gordon, The Scottish Reformation (Cambridge, 1960)Google Scholar.

3 See, esp., Davis, Natalie, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, Calif., 1975)Google Scholar.

4 Most notably, Kirk, James, “The Influence of Calvinism on the Scottish Reformation,” Records of the Scottish Church History Society, vol. 18 (1974)Google Scholar, “The Polities of the Best Reformed Kirks…: A Revision Article,” Scottish Historical Review, vol. 59 (1980)Google Scholar, “Introduction,” in Stirling Presbytery Records, 1581–1587, Scottish Historical Society, 4th ser., no. 17 (Edinburgh, 1981)Google Scholar, and “Introduction,” Second Book of Discipline (St. Andrews, 1980)Google Scholar.

5 Wormald, Jenny, Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland, 1470–1625,” (Toronto, 1981)Google Scholar, “Bloodfeud, Kindred, and Government in Early Modern Scotland,” Past and Present, no. 87 (1980)Google Scholar, “Scottish Politics, 1567–1625,” in The Reign of James VI and I, ed. Smith, A. G. R. (London, 1973)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and “The Exercise of Power,” in Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Brown, J. M. (New York, 1978)Google Scholar.