Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction: Adding Age and Generation as a Category of Historical Analysis - Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan
A 'gret cradil of stait': Growing Up with the Court of James IV - Laura E. Walkling and Mairi Cowan
A Perl for Your Debts? Young Women and Apprenticeships in Early Modern Edinburgh - Cathryn Spence
'Your louing childe and foster': The Fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll, 1633-39 - Janay Nugent
Work and Play: The Material Culture of Childhood in Early Modern Scotland - Stuart Campbell
Clann and Clan: Children of the Gaelic Nobility, c.1500-c.1800 - Anne Frater
Depictions of Childhood in David Allan's Family Group Portraiture of the 1780s - Nel Whiting
Slave Children: Scotland's Children as Chattels at Home and Abroad in the Eighteenth Century - Dolly MacKinnon
Natural Affection, Children, and Family Inheritance Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century - Katie Barclay
Preparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264-84 - Cynthia J Neville
'At thair perfect age': Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430-1560 - Heather Parker
Sons and Daughters, 'young wyfis' and 'barnis': Lyric, Gender, and the Imagining of Youth in the Maitland Manuscripts - Sarah Dunnigan
Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Two Letters to Her Son James - Jamie Reid Baxter
Guide to Further Reading

About the author

Janay Nugent, Elizabeth Ewan

Product details

• Authors: Janay Nugent
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Ewan (Editor), Janay Nugent (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9781783270439
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-043-9
• No. of pages: 251
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History