Dr Stephen Mark Holmes (MA, BD, PhD, FRHistS, FSAScot)

Honorary Fellow in History of Christianity

Biography

Qualifications

MA, BD, PhD, FRHistS, FSAScot

Responsibilities & affiliations

External appointments

Member of the Research and Awards Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Associate Rector of St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh

Course Director, Scottish Episcopal Institute

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

I am joint supervisor, with Professor Jane Dawson, of a PhD thesis by Martin Ritchie, 'Theatre of the World: the Drama of Worship in the Church of Scotland 1559-1619'.

Research summary

I have worked on early Christian monasticism and historical theology (ecclesiology and soteriology) but more recently my research has focussed on medieval and early modern religion in Scotland and Western Europe. Particular areas of interest are liturgy and liturgical interpretation, book history, religious material culture, education and reform movements.

My work has proposed a new understanding of the Scottish Reformation as a 'long reformation' which is both Protestant and Catholic and also a new terminology for the Scottish Reformation - I am interested in testing this. My most recent book was published by OUP at the end of 2015, Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland: Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590.

 

Current research interests

I am currently working on the distinctive series of fifteenth and sixteenth century sacrament houses in Eastern Scotland, late medieval Scottish liturgical theology and on the medieval Scottish liturgical manuscripts recorded in my 2011 catalogue. At present I am leading a small team preparing a three volume edition of Scottish medieval liturgical calendars for publication by the Henry Bradshaw Society.

Project activity

At present I am leading a small team preparing a three volume edition of Scottish medieval liturgical calendars for publication by the Henry Bradshaw Society.

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