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An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century.
List of contents
List of IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Centring the Margins -
Allan Kennedy and Susanne Weston Part I: Social Margins1. Disability and the Domestic Sphere in Early Modern Scotland -
Charlotte Holmes2. Relieving the Poor in Mid-Seventeenth-Century East Fife -
Samantha Hunter and Allan Kennedy3. The Marginalisation of Gypsies in Scotland, 1573-
c.1625 -
Thomas Tyson4. Burgesses on the Edge -
Kevin Hall5. Enslaved and Formerly Enslaved Young People in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scotland -
Matthew LeePart II: Occupational Margins6. Working on the Margins: Freemen, Unfreemen, and Stallangers in Early-Modern Scotland -
Aaron M. Allen7. The Life of the Lockman -
Laura I. Doak8. 'Huirdom and Harlotrie': Female Sex Workers in Early Modern Edinburgh, 1689-1760 -
Susanne Weston9. Navigating Marginality: The Coal Mine Workers of Seventeenth-Century Scotland -
Robert D. Tree Part III: Contemplating Marginality 10. Migrants, Itinerants, and the Marginality of Mobility in Seventeenth-Century Scotland -
Allan Kennedy11. Seeking the Lord, Seeking a Husband: Navigating Marginality in the Diary of Rachel Brown (1736-38) -
Martha McGill12. Queering the Castalian: James VI and I and 'Narratives of Blood' -
Lucy R. Hinnie Afterword
Summary
An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century.
