Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

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Contents: Introduction: where is the family in medieval and early modern Scotland?, Elizabeth Ewan and Janay Nugent Part I1Sources: Finding the family in the charters of medieval Scotland, 1150a 1350, Cynthia Neville 'And 4 years space, being man and wife, they loveingly agreed': balladry and early modern understandings of marriage, Katie Barclay 'I now have a book of songs of her writing': Scottish families, orality, literacy, and the transmission of musical culture c.1500a c.1800, Dolly MacKinnon The crucible: witchcraft and the experience of family in early modern Scotland, Scott Moir. Part 2 Family Roles: The name of the father: baptism and the social construction of fatherhood in early modern Edinburgh, Melissa Hollander Parents and children in early modern Scotland, David G. Mullan Crediting wives: married women and debt litigation in the 17th century, Gordon DesBrisay and Karen Sander Thomson Lapidary inscriptions: rhetoric, reality and the Baillies of Mellerstain, Barbara C. Murison. Part 3 Family, Kin and Community: The spiritual ties of kinship in pre-Reformation Scotland, Mairi Cowan 'Inressyng of kyndnes and renewing off thair blud': the family, kinship and clan policy in 16th-century Scottish Gaeldom, Alison Cathcart A family affair: households, misbehaving anfd the community in 16th-century Aberdeen, J.R.D. Falconer The famine of the 1690s and its aftermath: survival and recovery of the family, Karen Cullen The disorder of Comrie, Perthshire after the '45: a leg in a cornfield, Deborah A. Symonds Guide to further reading Glossary Index.