I was recently asked on Twitter for a recommendation for books on Scottish Catholic history, interpreted widely. Having made it clear that this is merely a highly personal (and possibly even silly) selection, here it is:
1) George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination by @LindenBicket https://t.co/0AN3znxY0q Terrific study not just for GMB but as a gateway into Scottish Catholic C20th intellectual life.— Lazarus Redivivus (@cumlazaro) May 15, 2018
3) I don't really understand the Scottish Reformation: in particular, I'm not sure to what extent an analysis something like Duffy's Stripping of the Altars could be applied here. Most helpful I've found so far is The Origins of the Scottish Reformation https://t.co/nVOTeFytU6— Lazarus Redivivus (@cumlazaro) May 15, 2018
5) And finally: A Cairn of Small Stones -which is a charming novel about Catholic Highland life in the C18: https://t.co/TOFeM7DYsq— Lazarus Redivivus (@cumlazaro) May 15, 2018
Interested to hear of alternative recommendations/comments!
Have you ever come across anything by Malcolm Hay? I think he wrote mainy in the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteI haven't! Were you thinking of this one: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/events/hay-of-seaton/malcolm-hay-of-seaton-460.php
DeleteThat will be the one, but it looks as though he might have written articles rather than books.
DeleteIt says here: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/f0d7f22e-9245-330c-b53d-3d3c89dfa16b
GB 231 MS 2193 Collection of papers relating to Scottish Catholicism. The collection comprises transcripts (carbon copy) made by Malcolm Vivian Hay of manuscripts in Blairs College Library, Aberdeen, relating to Scots Colleges abroad, Scottish affairs in the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, etc. I have an idea (though I don't know why) that he had published a fair bit.
P.F. Anson's book on underground Catholicism in Scotland (the years of persecution) gets a bit bogged down in who delated whom to Rome for what, but it's certainly thorough. Bruce Marshall's novel "All Glorious Within" is a rich and at times hilarious picture of a Scottish parish in the first half of the C20th. I've just started reading Margaret Leigh, who wrote autobiographical works about life on Highland crofts & farms, but spiritual concerns emerge - she became a Carmelite nun eventually.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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