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A kindly place? : living in sixteenth-century Scotland / Margaret H.B. Sanderson.

Title
A kindly place? : living in sixteenth-century Scotland / Margaret H.B. Sanderson.
Author
Sanderson, Margaret H. B.
Publication
East Linton : Tuckwell Press, 2002.

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Description
xii, 244 p. : geneal. tables; 24 cm.
Summary
"How did people survive in an age of private wars, foreign invasion and political uncertainty, of economic hardship and insecurity, of dislocation in religious and cultural life? How did they cope from day to day - lairds and tenants, merchants and craftsmen, rural labourers, urban-dwellers in service jobs, wives, widows and unmarried women?" "This book focuses on the people of sixteenth-century Scotland as individuals, families and communities, the people in the crowd-scenes of Scottish history. Using evidence from everyday life, it looks at ways in which they coped with the business of living and working together. A deep-rooted belief in a kin-based - kindly - right to possess the means of survival, together with hard-won survival skills, enabled many of them, despite the very real odds, to maintain a certain level of stability in their lives and the more prosperous among them to enjoy a comfortable standard of living. This is life seen from the ground up, showing, as it does, how the majority really lived. The sixteenth century may have been both high-watermark and watershed in respect of this comparative stability and opportunity."--Jacket
Subject
  • To 1603
  • Scotland > Social life and customs > To 1603
  • Scotland > History > 16th century
  • Scotland > Social conditions > 16th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Kindly Possessors, Customary Inheritance in Operation -- 2. Whatever happened to the feuars? Their Experience on Tayside -- 3. Laborious men. Patterns in Rural Labour -- 4. Sufficiently provided. Providing for All the Family -- 5. An Honest Shift. Faces in the Crowd in Late Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh -- 6. A Proper Dwelling. Some sources for the History of Sixteenth-Century Scottish Houses -- 7. Hearth and Home. Standards of Living in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Homes -- 8. Status and Subsistence. The Experience of Sixteenth-Century Scottish Women -- 9. With My Own Hand. Women's Handwriting in Sixteenth-Century Scotland -- 10. Surelie Persuaded. Wills as Evidence of Religious Belief in Sixteenth-Century Scotland -- 11. Past Memor of Man. Oral History in the Legal Records -- 12. 'Good Robert Scott'. Clerk of Session, 1539-1592. Written History in One Man's Hand -- Conclusion. A Kindly Place?
ISBN
1862321698
LCCN
^^2002503329
OCLC
  • 51481594
  • SCSB-12434866
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library