The Supernatural In Early Modern Scotland
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The Supernatural In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : Julian Goodare
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-11-25
The Supernatural In Early Modern Scotland written by Julian Goodare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with History categories.
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : J. Goodare
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-12-04
Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland written by J. Goodare and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with History categories.
This pioneering collection concentrates on witchcraft beliefs rather than witch-hunting. It ranges widely across areas of popular belief, culture and ritual practice, as well as dealing with intellectual life and incorporating regional and comparative elements.
Witchcraft In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : Lawrence Normand
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-23
Witchcraft In Early Modern Scotland written by Lawrence Normand and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-23 with History categories.
This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.
Life At The Margins In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : Allan Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Life At The Margins In Early Modern Scotland written by Allan Kennedy and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with History categories.
An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow range of acceptable identities and behaviours. Those who did not conform to this idealised standard, or who were in some fundamental way different from the prescribed norm, were met with suspicion. Such individuals often attracted both criticism and discrimination, forcing them to live confirmed to the social margins. Focusing on a range of marginalised groups, including the poor, migrants, ethnic minorities, indentured workers and women, the contributors to this book explore what it was like to live at the boundaries of social acceptability, what mechanisms were involved in policing the divide between "mainstream" and "marginal", and what opportunities existed for personal or collective fulfilment. The result is a fresh perspective on early modern Scotland, one that not only recovers the stories of people long excluded from historical discussion, but also offers a deeper understanding of the ordering assumptions of society more generally. Specific topics addressed range from the marginalisation of people with disabilities in the domestic sphere to female sex workers, and the place of executioners in society.
Fantastical Imaginations
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Author : Lizanne Henderson
language : en
Publisher: John Donald Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Fantastical Imaginations written by Lizanne Henderson and has been published by John Donald Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
In Scotland the subject of the supernatural has been largely ignored by mainstream historians and academics, who considered it to be irrelevant or trivial. This collection of essays, by some of the foremost commentators in the field, seeks to redress the balance by tackling such topics as prophecy, astrology, witchcraft, fairy belief, amulets and charming. Other issues include the role of the supernatural in Enlightenment Scotland, in almanacs, in Gaelic society, and in literature, folktale and legend. This is a multi-disciplinary volume, with contributions utilizing historical, literary and folkloristic methodologies and ranging in time from the late medieval period to the present day. It explores the perennial fascination of how people in the past viewed their world.
Ghosts In Enlightenment Scotland
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Author : Martha McGill
language : en
Publisher: Scottish Historical Review Mon
Release Date : 2018
Ghosts In Enlightenment Scotland written by Martha McGill and has been published by Scottish Historical Review Mon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019 Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries, castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to 1830, this book provides the first academic study of the history of Scottish ghosts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and examining beliefs across the social spectrum, it shows howghost stories achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the afterlife; the constructionof national identity; and the impact of the Enlightenment. MARTHA MCGILL completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Neo Latin Literature And Literary Culture In Early Modern Scotland
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Author : Steven J. Reid
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-19
Neo Latin Literature And Literary Culture In Early Modern Scotland written by Steven J. Reid and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with History categories.
The first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature produced by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Scottish Witch Hunt In Context
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Author : Julian Goodare
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-21
The Scottish Witch Hunt In Context written by Julian Goodare and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-21 with History categories.
This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It particularly emphasizes the later stages, since scholars are now as keen to explain why witch-hunting declined as why it occurred. There are studies of particular witchcraft panics, including a reassessment of the role of King James VI. The book thus covers a wide range of topics concerned with Scottish witch-hunting - and also places it in the context of other topics: gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral regulation by church and state.
Witchcraft And Folk Belief In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Lizanne Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Witchcraft And Folk Belief In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Lizanne Henderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with History categories.
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.
Satan And The Scots
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Author : Michelle D. Brock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016
Satan And The Scots written by Michelle D. Brock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Church history categories.
This series has been established to provide a medium for the international publication at work on the Reformations. The primary remit of the series is to reflect the range of subjects - British and European - and the variety of historical approaches and methods which now characterise scholarship in the field.