Routledge - Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638-1660 Book

Explore the relationship between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars with this scholarly work from Routledge. This study examines how civil conflict, invasion, and military occupation changed religious life in the mid-seventeenth century. By utilizing hundreds of previously neglected local documents, the book provides a unique perspective on how communities responded to instability. While many studies focus on other regions, this work uses mid-seventeenth-century Scotland as an important entry point to understand the intersection of early modern warfare and religious practice. This research offers a fresh way to look at how the dismantling of churches across Britain and Ireland and the invasion by a foreign English army impacted the spiritual lives of the people. It is an essential resource for those interested in the history of Great Britain, the Stuart period, and the social effects of military conflict.