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Religion in the Pew
- ”Historians work with texts; how can we know the thoughts of those who did not write?”
- Todd opens up her book with historiography that goes over my head but still circles around a point of interest. How to determine what the common person believed or thought.
- Rituals is proposed as a good metric in that large gatherings of people with buy in were needed along with time (opportunity costs).
- Todd then describes how in reformed Scotland they had sessions for parishes where pretty much anything that happened would be adjudicated like a marriage or something unlawful etc.
- It gives a document of the common man for Scotland at the time in some sense as it was most likely close to issues concerning the whole parish.
Book: The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland