ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emotional strategies used by the Scottish covenanters to combat their feelings of trauma and loss as a result of their religious persecution under the law between 1685 and 1714. Trans-generational members of this community saw martyrdom as part of a willing sacrifice for King Jesus in the hope for a reformation yet to come. By combining emotional practices and communities, it analyses the emotional capacities of women, men and children to frame their recollections, and the retelling of those personal narratives. Who appears in or is removed from traditional historical accounts is determined by emotion.
