Review
"...a broadly chronological analysis of the working of Scottish provincial councils...Watt is to be congratulated." -- Ecclesiastical History 53.1 (January 2002)
"The detailed account of this institution which Donald Watt provides is...an impressively sustained piece of scholarship." -- The Journal of Religious History Volume 26 No 1 Feb. 2002
"This simple but important story is here worked out on the basis of a meticulous criticism of the original sources." -- Theologische Literaturzeitung Redaktion, May 2002
"une contribution importante à létude de linfluence de lÉglise écossaise sur les structures socio-politiques plus larges du bas moyen âge." -- Revue dHistoire Ecclesiastique 96.3
Product Description
Scottish bishops obtained authority, in 1225, to hold inter-diocesan meetings without a supervisory archbishop, and continued to meet in this way for 250 years. This work is a study of these church councils from the Latin and English records based on original sources.







