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Part 2: Mary Queen of Scots, and the Reformation, 1542–1587
A study of religious and political change and conflict in 16th-century Scotland, illustrating the themes of crown, church and authority.
Key issues and description of content
Mary, from the ‘Rough Wooing’ to becoming Queen of France, to 1559
- Scottish society and Church in the 1540s: landowners, burghs, clergy; power of the monarchy and nobility at the death of James V. The Church’s faith, organisation, failure of attempts at reform. Relationship with England and France: the ‘rough wooing’; Mary’s move to France. Her dynastic position on the accession of Elizabeth I.
The Reformation in Scotland, to 1587
- The growth of Protestantism in Scotland: Wishart and Knox and Calvinism. The Lords of the Congregation. Rebellion against Mary of Guise; English intervention. The Treaty of Edinburgh. Reasons for Catholic persecution. The confirmation of the Reformation in Scotland: Regencies of Moray and Morton; the young James VI; Andrew Melville and the development of Presbyterianism in the 1570s. The Scottish Kirk and the Black Acts, 1580s.
Mary’s reign, 1561–1567
- Mary Queen of Scots in Scotland: return from France; personality, circumstances, policy. Relations with Elizabeth I. Relations with Moray and the Scots nobles. Marriage; murder of Riccio and of Darnley, marriage to Bothwell. Rebellion against Mary; her capture, abdication, imprisonment, escape, the Battle of Langside and exile.
Mary in England, 1567–1587
- Elizabeth I’s diplomatic circumstances, Mary’s imprisonment; Mary’s involvement in Catholic plots: Ridolfi, Throckmorton, Parry, Babington. Mary’s trial and execution.
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