Research Catalog

Title

Women in Scotland : c.1100 - c.1750 / edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle.

Publication

East Linton : Tuckwell Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ewan, Elizabeth.
• Meikle, Maureen M.

Description

xxx, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This comprehensive view of the feminine situation during more than six hundred years of Scottish history draws on a wide range of archival sources from Court of Session records to Middle Scots poetry. Discover within these pages how women really lived and what they really thought, whatever their place in society."--Jacket.

Subject

• Since 500
• 1100-1750
• Women > Scotland > History
• Women > Scotland > Social conditions
• Women > Scotland > Social life and customs
• Women > Scotland > History > Modern period, 1600-
• Women > Scotland > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
• Women > Scotland > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600
• Women
• Women > Middle Ages
• Women > Modern period
• Women > Renaissance
• Women > Social conditions
• Women > Social life and customs
• Vrouwen
• Frau
• Sozialgeschichte
• Scotland
• Grossbritannien
• Schottland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The foundation and patronage of nunneries by native elites in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Scotland / R. Andrew McDonald -- Power through purity: the virgin martyrs and women's salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland / Audrey-Beth Fitch -- Women in Scottish divinity, c. 1590-1640 / David G. Mullan -- Scots abroad in the fifteenth century: the princesses Margaret, Isabella, and Eleanor / Priscilla Bawcutt and Bridget Henisch -- Images of women in sixteenth-century Scotish literary manuscripts / Evelyn S. 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 of Finances, 1589-1630 / Maureen M. Meikle.
• In search of the antecedents of women's political activism in early eighteenth century Scotland: the daughters of Anne, Dutchess 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 J. Mann -- The power behind the merchant? women and the economy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh / Helen Dingwall -- Women and legal representation in early sixteenth-century Scotland / John Finlay -- Wife and widow: the evidence of testaments and marriage contracts c. 1600 / Winifred Coutts -- Women and the church courts in Reformation-era Scotland / Michael F. Graham -- A women's place: birth order, gender, and social status in Highland houses / Roxanne Reddington-Wilde -- Wet nurses and unwed mothers in seventeenth-century Aberdeen / Gordon DesBrisay.
• Wed to the manse: the wives of Scotish ministers, c. 1560-1800 / Ian D. Whyte and Kathleen A. Whyte -- Women and gender in the early modern western Gaidhealtachd / Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart.

ISBN

• 1862320462
• 9781862320468

LCCN

00688133

OCLC

• ocm43256642
• 43256642
• SCSB-964835

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library