UID:
almafu_9960117387302883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-538-4
Series Statement:
St Andrews studies in Scottish history ; 4
Content:
Children and youth have tended to be under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late eighteenth centuries with their lively experiences and voices. By examining medieval and early modern Scottish communities through the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions that young people are peripheral to our understanding of the political, economic, and social contexts of the premodern era. The topics addressed fall into three main sections: theexperience of being a child/adolescent; representations of the young; and the construction of the next generation. The individual essays examine the experience of the young at all levels of society, including princes and princesses, aristocratic and gentry youth, urban young people, rural children, and those who came to Scotland as slaves; they draw on evidence from art, personal correspondence, material culture, song, legal and government records, work and marriage contracts, and literature. Janay Nugent is an Associate Professor of History and a founding member of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Elizabeth Ewan is University Research Chair and Professor of History and Scottish Studies at the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Contributors: Katie Barclay, Stuart Campbell, Mairi Cowan, Sarah Dunnigan, Elizabeth Ewan, Anne Frater, Dolly MacKinnon, Cynthia J. Neville, Janay Nugent, Heather Parker, Jamie Reid Baxter, Cathryn R. Spence, Laura E. Walkling, Nel Whiting.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 May 2021).
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction: Adding Age and Generation as a Category of Historical Analysis; Part I Experiences of Childhood and Youth; 1 A 'gret cradil of stait': Growing Up with the Court of James IV; 2 A Perl for Your Debts?: Young Women and Apprenticeships in Early Modern Edinburgh; 3 'Your louing childe and foster': The Fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll, 1633-39; 4 Work and Play: The Material Culture of Childhood in Early Modern Scotland; Part II Representations of the Young
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5 Clann and Clan: Children of the Gaelic Nobility, c.1500-c.18006 Depictions of Childhood in David Allan's Family Group Portraiture of the 1780s; 7 Slave Children: Scotland's Children as Chattels at Home and Abroad in the Eighteenth Century; 8 Natural Affection, Children, and Family Inheritance Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century; Part III Constructing the Next Generation; 9 Preparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264-84; 10 'At thair perfect age': Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430-1560
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11 Sons and Daughters, 'young wyfis' and 'barnis': Lyric, Gender, and the Imagining of Youth in the Maitland ManuscriptsEnvoi: In Their Own Words: A Mother to Her Son; 12 Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Two Letters to Her Son James; Guide to Further Reading; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78327-043-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782045380
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782045380/type/BOOK
