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The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560-1707: Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare

The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560-1707: Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare

          
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This volume examines the development of Scotland's institutions of government in the early modern period, and considers how local and central authorities affected the lives of the Scottish people. In the book's first part, contributors provide up-to-date studies of initiatives to reform, define and reimagine the Scottish state. The essays discuss changes in the privy council, parliament and administration, and assess political and constitutional ideas. The book's second part explores how Scots experienced government. Contributors consider the material culture of state power and the actions of local courts and officials. Essays reconstruct the perspectives of criminals and religious dissenters, as well as participants in debt litigation and slander suits. Several chapters attend to the role of governing bodies in the Scottish witch-hunts. The essays respond to major themes in the work of Julian Goodare, who retired as Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh in 2021.



Table of Contents:
Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: The State, Society and Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: Current Debates and the Influence of Julian Goodare Martha McGill (University of Warwick) and Alasdair Raffe (University of Edinburgh) Part 1: The Scottish State 1. Legitimising Authority: Rival ‘States’ and the Marian Civil Wars Amy Blakeway (University of St Andrews) 2. ‘He is not factious but simple and well disposed to justice’: John Graham, Third Earl of Montrose and the Stewart Revolution in Government Alan R. MacDonald (University of Dundee) 3. The Covenanters and the (Re-)imagining of the Scottish Constitution Laura A.M. Stewart (University of York) 4. A Second Restoration: Remaking the Scottish State, 1678-1685 Alasdair Raffe (University of Edinburgh) 5. The Country Party and the Scottish Parliament, 1698-1704 Ben Rogers (University of Edinburgh) 6. The Highland “Other” and Scottish State Formation in the Seventeenth Century Allan Kennedy (University of Dundee) Part 2: The Experience of Government 7. Governmental Change and the Experience of Debtors in the Early Modern Scottish Courts Cathryn Spence (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) 8. Controlling Subjects: Shame, the State, and the Ritual of Punishment in Early Modern Scotland Harriet Cornell (University of Edinburgh) 9. Powerful Objects: Coercion, Restraint, Torture and Punishment in the Scottish National Collections Anna Groundwater (National Museums Scotland) 10. The Great Tranent Witch-Hunt: Manufacturing Imaginary Enemies of the Scottish State Louise Yeoman (BBC Scotland) 11. ‘A zealous prosecutor of witches’: Ephraim Melville and the Witch-Hunt at Queensferry, 1643-1644 Ciaran Jones (independent) 12. Enemies of God?: Slander, Gender and Witchcraft in the Scottish Parish Michelle D. Brock (Washington and Lee University, Virginia, USA) 13. The Afterlives of Thomas and Jean Weir Michael F. Graham (University of Akron, Ohio, USA) Conclusion: State Power Revisited Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh) Bibliography of Julian Goodare Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781399526708
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare
  • ISBN-10: 1399526707
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm


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