Life At The Margins In Early Modern Scotland
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Author | : Allan Kennedy |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837650233 |
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An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow range of acceptable identities and behaviours. Those who did not conform to this idealised standard, or who were in some fundamental way different from the prescribed norm, were met with suspicion. Such individuals often attracted both criticism and discrimination, forcing them to live confirmed to the social margins. Focusing on a range of marginalised groups, including the poor, migrants, ethnic minorities, indentured workers and women, the contributors to this book explore what it was like to live at the boundaries of social acceptability, what mechanisms were involved in policing the divide between "mainstream" and "marginal", and what opportunities existed for personal or collective fulfilment. The result is a fresh perspective on early modern Scotland, one that not only recovers the stories of people long excluded from historical discussion, but also offers a deeper understanding of the ordering assumptions of society more generally. Specific topics addressed range from the marginalisation of people with disabilities in the domestic sphere to female sex workers, and the place of executioners in society.
Author | : Harriet Cornell |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1837650489 |
Download Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened in the countryside was crucial: economically, socially and culturally. The essays collected here focus on the years between around 1500 and 1750. This period, although before the main era of agricultural "improvement" in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was nevertheless far from static in terms of agrarian development. Specific topics addressed include everyday farming practices; investment; landlords, tenants and estate management; and the cultural context within which agriculture was "imagined". The disastrous famine of 1622-23 is analysed in detail. The volume is completed by a comprehensive survey of recent historiography, setting agricultural history in its broader context.
Author | : William Poole |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843847248 |
Download The Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587-8-1627) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters. The Dundonian physician Peter Goldman, one of an immigrant family of merchants, was the first Scot to take a medical degree from Leiden; he then undertook research in Oxford, London, and Paris, before resettling in Dundee. An important figure in contemporary Scottish literary culture, he maintained a wide correspondence with significant intellectual figures and influenced two landmark Scottish publishing projects: the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum (1637) and the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654). However, his major literary achievement was his Latin poetry, which establishes him as a unique voice of his time. His longest and most prominent work is an elegy on the deaths of four of his brothers, strikingly narrated in the voice of their lamenting mother. This book reconstructs and provides a study of Goldman's life, career and writing. It also offers a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters, with accompanying commentary. Appendices provide an edited list of his remarkable library and a transcript of his testament.
Author | : LUCINDA H. S. DEAN |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2024-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837651728 |
Download Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides a long durée analysis of the ceremonial cycle of death and succession associated with Scottish kingship from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, including the final century of the Canmore dynasty, the crisis of the Bruce-Balliol conflict, and the emergence and consolidation of the Stewart family up to the funeral of last monarch buried in Scotland, James V, in 1543. Using a broad range of primary sources, including financial records and material culture, many of them previously untapped, it addresses key questions about kingship and power, the function of ceremony in legitimising royal authority, its significance in relation to the practical exercising of power, and evidence for Scottish similarities and distinctiveness within wider European contexts.
Author | : HUGH. OUSTON |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837652007 |
Download The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A study of Scottish thinkers and writers in their political and cultural context. The "advancement of learning" was the term used by late seventeenth-century Scots for intellectual enquiry of all kinds. Encouraged by Stuart patronage, and echoing a Royalist ideology of continuity and order following the chaos of the Civil War, the "Virtuosi", Scottish writers and thinkers, sought to define Scotland's identity. They undertook structured, empirical enquiry into Scottish natural history and geography, human history and antiquities, law and society, while the legal and medical professions developed their status and purpose through institutions such as the Royal College of Physicians and the Advocates' Library. They both complemented and eclipsed the changing intellectual life of the Church and Universities. This book considers the work of leading authors, such as Sir George Mackenzie, Sir Robert Sibbald and Lord Stair, alongside the many other voices engaged in learned research and debate, examining their shared or contrasting philosophy and methods. It shows how a distinctively Scottish take on the "Scientific Revolution" was enhanced by close contacts with the Royal Society and English thinkers, and a conscious membership of the European Republic of Letters.
Author | : Michelle D. Brock |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Clergy |
ISBN | : 1783276193 |
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A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004364951 |
Download Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The twelve essays in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.
Author | : Philipp Robinson Rössner |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030533093 |
Download Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as “Mercantilism” and “Cameralism”. Often viewed as antithesis of capitalism, inclusive institutions and good economy in the “West”, this book re-assembles them and builds them into a coherent origin story of modern capitalism. It explores the field of intellectual and conceptual history, especially the history of Renaissance and Mercantilism in a longer history of capitalism. Rather than hindrances, the author argues that Mercantilist and Cameralist political economies presented essential stepping stones of modern capitalism, in Britain and beyond. This book will be of interest to academics and students in general economic history, the history of capitalism, economic development and the history of economic thought.
Author | : P. Pender |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137342439 |
Download Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.
Author | : Keith Wrightson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300094121 |
Download Earthly Necessities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.