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Thu 10 Nov, 2005 10:38 pm
Hi:
I have a second year university essay due shortly on the Scottish Reformation. I've only taken American and Canadian history before - so this British History class is a little over my head. I've done a ton of research, but I'm unable to come up with a strong essay topic. I want it to be an interesting paper, but I've been drawing a blank for about a week trying to think of something decent to write about. The paper is only supposed to be about 5 pages long, and can be about anything relating to the Scottish Reformation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much.
Go online and look up John Calvin, and John Knox. There . . . you're all set--i'm not going to write the damned thing for you.
2nd year university.
There are quite a few sites about the Scottish reformation online, like
this one.
Thanks for the site Walter - I hadn't seen that site yet and I appreciate your help.
And Setanta - trust me, there is no way I'd want someone else to write my paper for me. Especially some guy from the internet. Way too much of a control freak for that. Also, John Knox? Damn...why didn't I think of that? (/sarcasm)
Your sarcasm is wasted--if you aren't quick enough to link John Calvin and John Knox to the Scots Reformation, then you'd need to be reminded. If you do know, why are you asking anyone online?
Because I wanted to do something other than the obvious - John Knox. I'm sure my prof is bored marking papers about Knox and the Scottish Reformation - I wanted to write about something interesting, and different.
And I'm asking online to get ideas, because I've already written a bunch of essays this term and I'm sick of coming up with topics. I thought someone might have an interesting perspective I hadn't thought of.
A different approach could be "Scottish guilts pre and past reformation" if you don't want to stuck on persons only - and than explain by those facts whatever you want to explain.
Given that the Scots Reformation was sparked by John Knox importing John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Church, which the Scots lapped up wholesale, with the eventual result being the Kirk, and Presbyterianism, i'm mystified to imagine what else you thought there would be to examine. The Scots, in that case, tended to act with amazing unity, and appalling dull-wittedness.
John Knox
You could do a biography of John Knox, the leader of the Scottish reformation.
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0525_Bios-_John_Knox.html
Are the
Five Articles of Perth within your Reformation timeframe? I think a discussion of why those seemed so horrendous to the Scots would be interesting. Seems to me they fairly closely match the tenets of Lutherans today.
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