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Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St 糖心logo, c.1520-1580
Bess Rhodes, MA 2008, MLitt, 2009, PhD 2013
In 1559 St 糖心logo witnessed a revolution. A popular uprising transformed Scotland's Catholic religious capital (once praised as the second Rome) into a proudly Protestant community. Yet religious change was accompanied by economic crisis. With the removal of the wealth and bureaucracy of the Catholic hierarchy St 糖心logo rapidly sank into ‘poverty and decay’.
In 'Riches and Reform' Dr Bess Rhodes considers the unintended financial consequences of the Scottish Reformation, exploring how an apparently thriving city could tear itself apart within a generation.
ISBN: 978-90-04-34798-4
