The Kirk and the Highlands at the Reformation

Gaelic Christianity? The Church in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland before and after the Reformation

“…3 Along with James Kirk, Jane Dawson has also contributed to a revisionist literature on the Reformation in Gaelic Scotland, challenging the older mantra of very limited impact down to the death of James VI & I with a far more positive picture. 4 Argyll and the Isles was the part of Gaelic Scotland most demonstrably in contact with Gaelic Ireland at various levels -military, social, economic, cultural -in the period in question. This is the zone where we find the presence both of practitioners of high Gaelic culture whose origins lay in Ireland, and of the greatest concentration of production of manuscripts in the literary dialect.…”

Gaelic Christianity? The Church in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland before and after the Reformation

“…3 Along with James Kirk, Jane Dawson has also contributed to a revisionist literature on the Reformation in Gaelic Scotland, challenging the older mantra of very limited impact down to the death of James VI & I with a far more positive picture. 4 Argyll and the Isles was the part of Gaelic Scotland most demonstrably in contact with Gaelic Ireland at various levels -military, social, economic, cultural -in the period in question.…”