| PW-264004-19 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Washington and Lee University | Mapping the Scottish Reformation | 5/1/2019 - 12/31/2020 | $49,959.00 | Michelle | D. | Brock | | | | Washington and Lee University | Lexington | VA | 24450-2116 | USA | 2019 | British History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 49959 | 0 | 49959 | 0 | A collaborative planning project to develop a
database documenting the lives of members of the Scottish clergy from 1560 to 1689,
based on manuscripts held at the National Records of Scotland.
A digital prosopography that
traces the careers of two centuries of Scottish clerics, Mapping the Scottish
Reformation (MSR) will be one of the largest databases of Protestant thinkers,
theologians, and preachers in the world. Built with data from manuscripts held
at the National Records of Scotland (NRS), this is the first project to ever
comprehensively chart the growth, movement, and networks of the Scottish clergy
between 1560 and 1689. For scholars and students of this era, such a resource
will provide crucial framing for inquiries into religious beliefs, political
conflicts, and institutional change. For those interested in family history on
both sides of the Atlantic, MSR will provide unprecedented information on
individuals whose outsized archival footprints make them critical figures for
genealogical research. We are requesting an NEH HCRR Foundations Grant to
support the essential pilot phase of this multi-stage project. |