A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland

Edward J Cowan; Lizanne Henderson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland

Edward J Cowan and Lizanne Henderson

In the series A History of Everyday Life in Scotland

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629503

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About this book

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600. Its purpose is to discover the character of everyday life in Scotland over time and to do so, where possible, within a comparative context. Its focus is on the mundane, but at the same time it takes heed of the people's experience of wars, famine, environmental disaster and other major causes of disturbance, and assesses the effects of longer-term processes of change in religion, politics, and economic and social affairs. In showing how the extraordinary impinged on the everyday, the book draws on every possible kind of evidence including a diverse range of documentary sources, artefactual, environmental and archaeological material, and the published work of many disciplines.

The authors explore the lives of all the people of Scotland and provide unique insights into how the experience of daily life varied across time according to rank, class, gender, age, religion and ethnic group. They look at the contextual nature of everyday experience and consider how this was shaped by national, regional and tribal considerations. They reveal the variations between Highland and Lowland, the Western Isles and the Northern Isles, inland and coastal, and urban and rural.

They examine the role played by language, whether Gaelic, Welsh, English, Pictish, Norse, Latin or Scots.

The book shows the distinctively Scottish aspects of diurnal life and how, through trading and contact with migrants, the lives of Scots were affected by other cultures and nations. Taken as a whole it represents a new way of looking at medieval Scotland and has implications and relevance for historians and their public across the discipline.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editors’ Foreword Elizabeth Foyster and Christopher A. Whatley Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Landscape and People Fiona Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. The Worldview of Scottish Vikings in the Age of the Sagas Edward J. Cowan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Sacred and Banal: The Discovery of Everyday Medieval Material Culture Jenny Shiels and Stuart Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. The Family David Sellar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. ‘Hamperit in ane hony came’: Sights, Sounds and Smells in the Medieval Town Elizabeth Ewan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. Playtime Everyday: The Material Culture of Medieval Gaming Mark A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7. Women of Independence in Barbour’s Bruce and Blind Harry’s Wallace Rebecca Boorsma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
8. Everyday Life in the Histories of Scotland from Walter Bower to George Buchana Nicola Royan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9. Disease, Death and the Hereafter in Medieval Scotland Richard D. Oram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
10. ‘Detestable Slaves of the Devil’: Changing Ideas about Witchcraft in Sixteenth- Century Scotland Lizanne Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
11. Glaswegians: The First One Thousand Years Edward J. Cowan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
12. Marian Devotion in Scotland and the Shrine of Loreto Audrey- Beth Fitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Annotated Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 36 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: June 6, 2011
ISBN: 9780748629503