Chris R. Langley

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA, FRHistS

Digital Resources

The General Assembly Online

Digital Church Records Index: Carmarthenshire Parish Registers Index Search, Welsh Parish Registers Map and Scottish Presbytery Book Map

Mapping the Scottish Reformation: A Database of Scotland's Clergy (with Michelle D. Brock) and project blog (play with the expanded dataset here).

Parish Populations in Early Modern Scotland


Books

with Catherine E. McMillan & Russell Newton (eds), The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (London: Boydell, 2021)

Cultures of Care: Domestic Welfare and the Church of Scotland, c.1600-1689 (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

(ed.), The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638–1689 (London: Boydell, 2020)

(ed.), The Minutes of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, 1648-1659 (London: Boydell, 2016)

Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638-1660 (London: Routledge, 2016)


Articles & Book Chapters

‘Clergy widows in early modern Scotland’, Scottish Church History (forthcoming, 2022)

'Parish politics and godly agitation in late Interregnum Scotland’, Church History, 90:3 (September, 2021)

'Anticlericalism in early modern Scotland?’, in Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan & Russell Newton (eds), The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (London: Boydell, 2021)

'Decorum, emotion and moderation at the Glasgow Assembly, 1638’, Historical Research, 93 (2020)

'Reading John Knox in the Scottish Revolution, 1638-42’, in Chris R. Langley (ed.), The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638–1689 (London: Boydell, 2020)

‘“So necessarie and charitable a worke”: Welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners of war in England, 1650-1660’, in D. J. Appleby & A. Hopper (eds), Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018)

‘“In the execution of his office”: Lay officials and the exercise of ecclesiastical discipline in Scotland, c. 1600-1660’, The Seventeenth Century, 33 (2018)

‘Sheltering under the Covenant: The National Covenant, orthodoxy and the Irish Rebellion, 1638-1643’, Scottish Historical Review, 96 (October, 2017)

‘Lying sick to die: Dying, informal care and authority in Scotland, c.1600-1660’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 48: 1 (2017)

‘Caring for soldiers, veterans and families in Scotland, 1638-1651’, History, 101 (2017)

‘“A sweet love-token betwixt Christ and his Church”: Kirk, communion and the search for further reformation, 1646-1658’, in J. McCallum (ed.), Scotland's Long Reformation: New Perspectives on Scottish Religion, c. 1500–1660 (Leiden: Brill, 2016)

‘“Diligence in his ministrie”: Changing views of clerical sufficiency in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 104 (2013)