![]() Perhaps not surprisingly in a collection of this kind, the quality is uneven some of the chapters are decidedly slight, while others lack analytical depth. ![]() ![]() Rather, the book reflects Lynch’s more recent interest in the royal court, and its significance to Edinburgh in the reign of James VI, as well as the interdependence of political, religious, and cultural history and the ways in which each can illuminate the others. ![]() This is perhaps an accurate reflection of where Lynch’s own interests primarily lie, as is the fact that very few of the contributions are essays in urban history as such-the field in which Lynch initially made his name with his magisterial work on Edinburgh and the Reformation (Edinburgh, 1981). The book’s core is the four decades immediately following the Protestant Reformation and serves as the focus of twelve chapters. Its eighteen chapters cover what the editors call the long sixteenth century, from 1500 to 1650, but there are only three contributions relating to the period before the Reformation of 1560 and three on the period after the Union of Anglo-Scottish Crowns in 1603. ![]() Michael Lynch retired from the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh in 2005 and this hefty, handsome, and meticulously edited volume is a tribute from his friends, colleagues, and former students to his impact on the study of Reformation Scotland. ![]()
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