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Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520-1580
Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520-1580

Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520-1580 in Bloomington, MN

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The Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In
Riches and Reform
Bess Rhodes challenges this assumption with a study of church finance in Scotland’s religious capital of St Andrews, a place once regarded as the ‘cheif and mother citie of the Realme’. Drawing on largely unpublished charters, rentals, and account books,
argues that in St Andrews the Reformation triggered a rapid, large-scale, and ultimately ruinous redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth. Communal assets built up over generations were suddenly dispersed through a combination of official policies, individual opportunism, and a crisis in local administration, leading the post-Reformation churches and city of St Andrews into ‘poverte and decay’.
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