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Yellowlees, ‘So Strange a Monster as a Jesuite’

Yellowlees, ‘So Strange a Monster as a Jesuite’ REVIEWS just to England but to Britain’. The two countries did not have separate futures, but a shared destiny. Knox might advocate different forms of action for either country in order to achieve this, but there remained one clear, British, goal. By 1560, such a belief in a common Protestant destiny led in turn to a re-conceptualisation of amity along godly lines. Relations between the two countries had been transformed, due largely to the religious dynamic which had been unleashed. The assertions of English superiority, witnessed during the 1540s, were now discarded (although certainly never as dead-and-buried as Kellar implies), in favour of a new understanding between the two realms. At the start of the period, the Scots appeared to identify more closely with Europe; now the focus was on the island of Britain. English and Scottish perceptions of each other, but also of themselves, were being reshaped in the light of the religious changes. Although such perceptions did not necessarily change for all concerned—Kellar points out English xenophobia towards the Scots, and the Catholic associations which still persisted—they encouraged fresh debate upon the relationship between the two realms, and broadened the opportunities for an alliance to be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Scottish Historical Review Edinburgh University Press

Yellowlees, ‘So Strange a Monster as a Jesuite’

Scottish Historical Review , Volume 85 (2): 350 – Oct 1, 2006

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Edinburgh University Press
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0036-9241
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1750-0222
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10.3366/shr.2007.0006
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REVIEWS just to England but to Britain’. The two countries did not have separate futures, but a shared destiny. Knox might advocate different forms of action for either country in order to achieve this, but there remained one clear, British, goal. By 1560, such a belief in a common Protestant destiny led in turn to a re-conceptualisation of amity along godly lines. Relations between the two countries had been transformed, due largely to the religious dynamic which had been unleashed. The assertions of English superiority, witnessed during the 1540s, were now discarded (although certainly never as dead-and-buried as Kellar implies), in favour of a new understanding between the two realms. At the start of the period, the Scots appeared to identify more closely with Europe; now the focus was on the island of Britain. English and Scottish perceptions of each other, but also of themselves, were being reshaped in the light of the religious changes. Although such perceptions did not necessarily change for all concerned—Kellar points out English xenophobia towards the Scots, and the Catholic associations which still persisted—they encouraged fresh debate upon the relationship between the two realms, and broadened the opportunities for an alliance to be

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Published: Oct 1, 2006

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