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.
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.
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.
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