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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The century after the Reformation of 1560 was a time of turmoil in Scotland. Not only did people have to adjust to the new ways of worship but in 1603 the royal Court moved to London when King James VI inherited the throne of England. After that came opposition to royal financial and ecclesiastical policies civil war and Oliver Cromwell’s military occupation of Scotland followed by the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Of course important men feature in histories of the period but all too often wives are ignored at best meriting no more than a sentence or two in their husbands’ biographies. So how can we find out about the experiences and reactions of women during those significant decades? This is a challenging task because of the scarcity of documentary evidence. A favourite anecdote popularised by Sir Walter Scott tells how the semi-apocryphal Jenny Geddes started a riot in 1637 by throwing her stool at Dean Hannay in St Giles’ Cathedral when he began to read from Charles I’s new English-style prayer book considered by many to presage a return to Roman Catholicism. No reliable details of her life have ever been discovered and this is not surprising because few even of the elite women were taught to write until the early seventeenth century. They learned to read so that they could study their Bibles but the papers of those who were fully literate were all too often discarded after their deaths because their (LL)