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  3. Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2020
      December 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108918787
      9781108843478
      9781108825184
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918787
      Dimensions:
      (150 x 230 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 304 Pages
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      Weight & Pages:
      0.442kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Subjects:
    British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    In early modern Scotland, religious and constitutional tensions created by Protestant reform and regal union stimulated the expression and regulation of opinion at large. Karin Bowie explores the rising prominence and changing dynamics of Scottish opinion politics in this tumultuous period. Assessing protestations, petitions, oaths, and oral and written modes of public communication, she addresses major debates on the fitness of the Habermasian model of the public sphere. This study provides a historicised understanding of early modern public opinion, investigating how the crown and its opponents sought to shape opinion at large; the forms and language in which collective opinions were represented; and the difference this made to political outcomes. Focusing on modes of persuasive communication, it reveals the reworking of traditional vehicles into powerful tools for public resistance, allowing contemporaries to recognise collective opinion outside authorised assemblies and encouraging state efforts to control seemingly dangerous opinions.

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