Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795

Karin Bowie is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, UK. She studies the nature and impact of public opinion and participative politics in early modern Scotland and has a forthcoming monograph on Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707.Thomas Munck is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Glasgow, UK, where his research has focused on comparative European social, cultural and political history. He co-chairs an international seminar on Cultural Translation and his book Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe 1635-1795 was published in 2019.

• IntroductionKarin Bowie and Thomas Munck1. From customary to constitutional right: the right to petition in Scotland before the 1707 Act of UnionKarin Bowie2. Neither inside nor outside the corridors of power: prosaic petitioning and the royal burghs in early modern ScotlandAlan R. MacDonald3. Petitioning in early seventeenth-century Scotland, 1625–51 Laura A.M. Stewart4. Petitioning in the Scottish church courts, 1638–1707Alasdair Raffe5. The petition in the Court of Session in early modern ScotlandJohn Finlay6. Parliament, printed petitions and the political imaginary in seventeenth-century EnglandJason Peacey7. Petitioning, addressing and the historical imagination: the case of Great Yarmouth, England 1658–1784Ted Vallance8. Petitions and ‘legitimate’ engagement with power in absolutist Denmark 1660–1800Thomas Munck