Tag: role theory

  • Role Theory and Protestant Spirituality in Early Modern Scotland

    Role Theory and Protestant Spirituality in Early Modern Scotland

    CIARAN JONES I recently submitted my PhD thesis on Protestant spirituality in early modern Scotland. Focussing on witchcraft trials, my thesis was mainly concerned with how your average seventeenth-century peasant articulated certain spiritual ideas. Using mostly manuscript records of witchcraft trial confessions as my source base, I compared how these ideas were expressed in different but related…