Allan Kennedy 
Deviance and Marginality in Early Modern Scotland [EPUB ebook] 

An exploration of the complex and multifaceted connection between deviant behaviour and social marginality in Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.


During the early modern period in Scotland, deviant behaviour often went hand-in-hand with social marginality. Individuals might be ejected from the mainstream after breaching core behavioural standards; the experience of marginality itself often necessitated transgressive behaviour as a survival strategy; and, for some minority groups, the simple maintenance of their accustomed culture or lifestyle was understood through the lens of deviance. To be marginalised and to be deviant were, in many cases, two sides of the same coin.


Focusing on a range of behaviours, including irregular sex, violent and verbal assault, petty criminality, piracy, political dissidence, and religious nonconformity, this book explores the connection between deviance and marginality in early modern Scotland, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It assesses why certain behaviours were judged to deserve social marginalisation, what mechanisms were used to enforce this, how individual and groups responded to it, and what opportunities existed for avoiding, escaping, or mitigating its effects. The result is a fresh and innovative perspective on early modern Scotland, one that not only recovers the experiences of people long excluded from historical discussion, but also offers insights into the nature of crime and deviance in the pre-modern world. Specific topics covered include sexual deviance, defining words as witchcraft, piracy and the state, the weaponisation of ‘marginality’ in verbal violence, covenanting women, and the connection between deviance and the ‘common musician’.

Daftar Isi

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations


Introduction: The Deviant Margins

Allan Kennedy


Part I: Conceptualising Deviance


1 Conceptualising Deviant Sex in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Allan Kennedy


2 Assault in the Margins: Gendered Violence in Seventeenth-Century Bute

Ashlyn Cudney


3 Disorderly, Deviant, Dangerous: Defining Words as Witchcraft in Early Modern Scottish Communities

Sierra Dye


4 ‘Believing na evill nor injury’: Space, Place, and Crime in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Burghs

J. R. D. Falconer


Part II: Performing Deviance


5 Piracy, the State, and the Burghs of South-West Scotland, 1560-1603

Scott Carballo


6 ‘Ane legall man quhairof we are glad’: Male Violence, Female Agency, and the Quest for Legitimacy in the Story of Seumas an Tuim

Graham Watson


7 Covenanting Women in Scotland: Nonconformity, Marginality, and Community,
c.1660-1690

Scott Eaton


8 Life at the Margins of Law and Order: James Macpherson – The Scottish Robin Hood

Anne-Marie Kilday


Part III: Testing the Boundaries

9 The Common Musician and Deviance in Early Modern Scotland

Aaron Mc Gregor


10 Marginally Speaking: Insults and Concepts of Marginality in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns

Elizabeth Ewan


11 Ejected Academics: Marginalised Scottish University Professors between the Reformation and Revolution

Salvatore Cipriano


12 Partial Conformity in Restoration Scotland, 1662-1669

Jamie Mc Dougall


Afterword

Index

Tentang Penulis

SALVATORE CIPRIANO is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education, Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Fordham University.