Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (EPDF) von Janay Nugent

Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the nineteenth century.

Introduction: Adding Age and Generation as a Category of Historical Analysis - Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan
A 'gret cradil of stait': Growing Up with the Court of James IV - Laura E. Walkling and Mairi Cowan
A Perl for Your Debts? Young Women and Apprenticeships in Early Modern Edinburgh - Cathryn Spence
'Your louing childe and foster': The Fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll, 1633-39 - Janay Nugent
Work and Play: The Material Culture of Childhood in Early Modern Scotland - Stuart Campbell
Clann and Clan: Children of the Gaelic Nobility, c.1500-c.1800 - Anne Frater
Depictions of Childhood in David Allan's Family Group Portraiture of the 1780s - Nel Whiting
Slave Children: Scotland's Children as Chattels at Home and Abroad in the Eighteenth Century - Dolly MacKinnon
Natural Affection, Children, and Family Inheritance Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century - Katie Barclay
Preparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264-84 - Cynthia J Neville
'At thair perfect age': Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430-1560 - Heather Parker
Sons and Daughters, 'young wyfis' and 'barnis': Lyric, Gender, and the Imagining of Youth in the Maitland Manuscripts - Sarah Dunnigan
Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Two Letters to Her Son James - Jamie Reid Baxter
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