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Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 Elizabeth L. Ewan

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 By Elizabeth L. Ewan

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 by Elizabeth L. Ewan


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A comprehensive view of the lives of women in Scotland from 1100 to 1750, based on a wide range of archival sources, including Court of Session records and Middle Scots poetry. Amongst the women featured are nuns, brewers, widows, witches, and wives of ministers of the kirk.

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 Summary

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 by Elizabeth L. Ewan

This collection of essays addresses women in Scotland in the medieval and early modem period, drawing on archival sources from Court of Session records to Middle Scots poetry. The editors argue persuasively that it is important to know about Scotswomen from all social levels. The book includes a time line and introductory bibliographical essay. The twenty essays in the collection are arranged under the themes of religion, literature, legal history, the economy, politics and the family. They demonstrate the connections between Scottish women's experience and those in England and the continent, as well as highlighting what was unique for the history of Scottish women.

Through this comprehensive review of the feminine situation during more than six hundred years of Scottish history, the reader will discover how women really lived and what they really thought, whatever their place in society.

About Elizabeth L. Ewan

Dr Rosalind K. Marshall is a well-known writer and historian and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of several biographies, including The Days of Duchess Anne: Life in the Household of the Duchess of Hamilton, 1656-1716.

Table of Contents

Introduction: a monstrous regiment of women? Elizabeth Ewan, Maureen M. Meikle. The foundation and patronage of nunneries by native elites in 12th- and early 13th century Scotland, R. Andrew Mc Donald; power through purity - the Virgin Martyrs and Women's Salvation in pre-Reformation Scotland, Audrey-Beth Fitch; women in Scottish Divinity, c. 1590-c.1640, David G. Mullan; Scots abroad in the 15th century -the princesses Margaret, Isabella and Eleanor, Priscilla Bawcutt, Bridget Henisch; images of women in 16th century Scottish manuscripts, Evelyn Newlyn; women of the Gaidhealtachd and their songs to 1750, Anne C. Frater; Dragonis baith and dowis ay in double forme - women at the Court of James V, 1513-1542, Andrea Thomas; politicking Jacobean women - Lady Ferniehirst, the Countess of Arran and the Countess of Huntly, c. 1580-1603, Ruth Grant; holde her at the Oeconomicke rule of the House - Anna of Denmark and Scottish court finances, 1589-1603, Maureen M. Meikle; in search of the antecedents of women's political activism in early 18th century Scotland - the daughters of Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, Karl von den Steinen; for whatever Ales Ye - women as consumers and producers in late medieval Scottish towns, Elizabeth Ewan; embroidery to enterprise - the role of women in the book trade of early modern Scotland, Alastair Mann; the power behind the merchant? women and the economy in late 17th century Edinburgh, Helen Dingwall; women and legal representation in early 16th century Scotland, John Finlay; wife and widow - the evidence of statements and marriage contracts, c. 1600, Winifred Coutts; women and the church courts in Reformation-era Scotland, Michael F. Graham; women and the witch-hunt, Julian Goodare; a woman's place - birth order, gender and social status in Highland houses, Roxanne Reddington-Wilde; wet nurses and unwed mothers in 17th century Aberdeen, Gordon DesBrisay; wed to the Manse - the wives of Scottish ministers, c. 1560-1800, Ian D. Whyte, Kathleen A. Whyte; women and gender in the early modern western Gaidhealtachd, Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart.

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GOR002012322
9781862320468
1862320462
Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 by Elizabeth L. Ewan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Birlinn General
19991116
260
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