Premodern 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 Premodern Scotland write by Joanna Martin. This book was released on 2017-06-16. Premodern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the 'advice to princes' tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin literature composed in Scotland in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. The volume brings to the fore texts both from and about the royal court in a variety of genres, including satire, tragedy, complaint, dream vision, chronicle, epic, romance, and devotional and didactic treatise, and considers texts composed for noble readers and for a wider readership able to access printed material. The writers and texts studied include Bower's Scotichronicon, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Gavin Douglas's Eneados. Lesser known authors and texts also receive much-needed critical attention, and include Richard Holland's, The Buke of the Howlat, chronicles by Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece, and John Bellenden, and poetry by sixteenth-century writers such as Robert Sempill, John Rolland of Dalkeith, and William Lauder. Non-literary texts, such as the Parliamentary 'Aberdeen Articles' further deepen the discussion of the volume's theme. Writing from south of the Border, which provoked creative responses in Scots authors, and which were themselves inflected by the idea of Scotland and its literature, are also considered and include the Troy Book by John Lydgate, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. With a focus on historical and material context, contributors explore the ways in which these texts engage with notions of the self and with advisory subjects both specific to particular Stewart monarchs and of more general political applicability in Scotland in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
Children and Youth in Premodern 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 Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland write by Janay Nugent. This book was released on 2015. Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the nineteenth century.
The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
The Clergy 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 The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland write by Michelle D. Brock. This book was released on 2021. The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.
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.
Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Finding the Family in Medieval and 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 Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland write by Elizabeth Ewan. This book was released on 2008. Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, an international group of scholars have come together to suggest new directions for the study of the family in Scotland circa 1300-1750. Contributors apply tools from across a range of disciplines including art history, literature, music, gender studies, anthropology, history and religious studies to assess creatively the broad range of sources which inform our understanding of the pre-modern Scottish family.
