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World History

XemaSab

(60,212 posts) Sun Jun 24, 2012, 12:02 AM Jun 2012

Anyone have any good resources about the Scottish covenanters or Calvin's Geneva?

No, these aren't my favorite things ever, but I need to learn about them.

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Anyone have any good resources about the Scottish covenanters or Calvin's Geneva? (Original Post) XemaSab Jun 2012 OP

Potentially interesting historical anecdote Spider Jerusalem Jul 2012 #1

Huh XemaSab Jul 2012 #2

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

1. Potentially interesting historical anecdote

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 02:36 PM

Jul 2012

many Scottish Presbyterians who signed the covenant did so in blood, and wore red scarves to signify their support; they became known as "rednecks", and many of these lowland Scots "redneck" dissenters went to Ulster and thence to North America (where they mostly ended up in the South and many of their descendants later became Baptists).

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)

2. Huh

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 02:57 PM

Jul 2012

Good to know.

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