Stephen Mark Holmes is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

"... [this] book is meticulous in its research and exemplary in its use and interpretation of book history as a source for discovering areas of liturgical interpretation. It brings to light and illuminates not only the history of liturgical understanding and its adaptation in Scotland, but its different expressions and uses, and it does so by successfully unravelling complex interpretations and uses of liturgy for modern readers unfamiliar with the very concept." --Annette Hagan, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

"This is a fascinating book that focuses on a neglected area of study. The multiple methods all help the reader to better understand how worship was understood and contested in this period. Holmes has also demonstrated the vibrancy of Catholic reform networks prior to 1560. Some of the other implications the author suggests will certainly generate debate. Stephen Mark Holmes is to be thanked for focusing our attention on the central role played by worship and how worship was understood in the debates within sixteenth-century Scotland."--Renaissance Quarterly

"Holmes call for this new methodology opens up great possibilities for future scholarship. He applies this method to Scotland as his example, but the possibilities for applying this method to other European Reformations is extensive. In so doing, it would provide a greater understanding, hopefully as it did with his Scottish example, of continuity within the changing Reformation world. Specifically continuity within countries' own medieval religious traditions. A focus on seeking continuity rather than stark change is a much needed examination in Reformation scholarship. Those interested in this call can turn to Holmes for a strong model. He provides a strong argument, well evidenced throughout."--Anglican and Episcopal History

"Stephen Holmes...has discovered new sources to exploit in a reassessment of the Scottish Reformation."--Sixteenth Century Journal