
Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the Scots Church
In august, the parliament of scotland adopted a series of laws that outlawed the catholic mass and abolished the pope's authority over the church. Pursuant to a treaty called the treaty of edinburgh, all english and french troops left scotland and a council of nobles was designated to govern the country. But those developments also brought about the decline of scots as a distinct language. The scottish protestants didn't have a complete bible in os. And at a time when the language of religion exerted a much greater influence on society than it does to day, the use of english by the scottish church delivered an initial blow to the overall influence of sc
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