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An exploration of the complex and multifaceted connection between deviant behaviour and social marginality in Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
List of contents
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Deviant Margins
Allan Kennedy
Part I: Conceptualising Deviance 1 Conceptualising Deviant Sex in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Allan Kennedy
2 Assault in the Margins: Gendered Violence in Seventeenth-Century Bute
Ashlyn Cudney
3 Disorderly, Deviant, Dangerous: Defining Words as Witchcraft in Early Modern Scottish Communities
Sierra Dye
4 'Believing na evill nor injury': Space, Place, and Crime in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Burghs
J. R. D. Falconer
Part II: Performing Deviance 5 Piracy, the State, and the Burghs of South-West Scotland, 1560-1603
Scott Carballo
6 'Ane legall man quhairof we are glad': Male Violence, Female Agency, and the Quest for Legitimacy in the Story of Seumas an Tuim
Graham Watson
7 Covenanting Women in Scotland: Nonconformity, Marginality, and Community,
c.1660-1690
Scott Eaton
8 Life at the Margins of Law and Order: James Macpherson - The Scottish Robin Hood
Anne-Marie Kilday
Part III: Testing the Boundaries 9 The Common Musician and Deviance in Early Modern Scotland
Aaron McGregor
10 Marginally Speaking: Insults and Concepts of Marginality in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns
Elizabeth Ewan
11 Ejected Academics: Marginalised Scottish University Professors between the Reformation and Revolution
Salvatore Cipriano
12 Partial Conformity in Restoration Scotland, 1662-1669
Jamie McDougall
Afterword Index
About the author
Edited by Allan Kennedy
Summary
An exploration of the complex and multifaceted connection between deviant behaviour and social marginality in Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
