Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland write by J R D Falconer. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation. Falconer argues that an analysis of both criminal behaviour and law enforcement provides a unique view into the workings of an early modern urban Scottish community.
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 write by Miles Kerr-Peterson. This book was released on 2016-12-19. James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603. The collection assesses James’ relationship with his nobility, detailing how he interacted with them, and how they fought, co-operated with and understood each other. It includes case studies from across Scotland from the Highlands to the Borders and burghs, and on major individual events such as the famous Gowrie conspiracy. Themes such as the nature of government in Scotland and religion as a shaper of policy and faction are addressed, as well as broader perspectives on the British and European nobility, bloodfeuds, and state-building in the early modern period. The ten chapters together challenge well-established notions that James aimed to be a modern, centralising monarch seeking to curb the traditional structures of power, and that the period represented a period of crisis for the traditional and unrestrained culture of feuding nobility. It is demonstrated that King James was a competent and successful manager of his kingdom who demanded a new level of obedience as a ‘universal king’. This volume offers students of Stuart Britain a fresh and valuable perspective on James and his reign.
Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland
Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland write by Allan Kennedy. This book was released on 2024-06-04. Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Crime in Scotland 1660-1960
Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 write by Anne-Marie Kilday. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "the violent north", but how true is this statement? Does Scotland deserve to be defined thus, and upon what foundations is this definition based? This book examines the history of crime in Scotland, questioning the labelling of Scotland as home to a violent culture and examining changes in violent behaviour over time, the role of religion on violence, how gender impacted on violence and how the level of Scottish violence fares when compared to incidents of violence throughout the rest of the UK. This book offers a ground-breaking contribution to the historiography of Scottish crime. Not only does the piece illuminate for the first time, the nature and incidence of Scottish criminality over the course of some three hundred years, but it also employs a more integrated analysis of gender than has hitherto been evident. This book sheds light on whether the stereotypical label given to Scotland as 'the violent north' is appropriate or in any way accurate, and it further contributes to our understanding of not only Scottish society, but of the history of crime and punishment in the British Isles and beyond.
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834 write by Rachel E. Bennett. This book was released on 2017-12-04. Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman’s noose and explores the traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between 1740 and 1834 was one of discussion, debate and fundamental change in the use of the death sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition, the study provides an innovative investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed and around the dissection tables of Scotland’s main universities where criminal bodies were used as cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment.
