Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560-1707

Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare

Av Martha McGill, Alasdair Raffe

322 kr

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-31
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 352
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399526715

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Martha McGill is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her publications include Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (2018) and The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (2020), co-edited with Julian Goodare. She has also published various articles and chapters on early modern supernatural beliefs. Alasdair Raffe is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on religion, politics and ideas in early modern Scotland, in particular the emergence of religious, intellectual and political pluralism in the 17th and 18th centuries. He is the author of The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714 (Boydell, 2012) and Scotland in Revolution, 1685-1690 (EUP, 2018).

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What is the early modern state? What does it do, why, how, and to whom? The present essays, reflecting the scholarly work of Julian Goodare, illuminate many aspects of the state, from notables directing ‘high politics’ to those such as debtors, criminals and witches at the receiving end.

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