The Scottish state and the experience of government, c. 1560-1707 : essays in honour of Julian Goodare / edited by Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGill, Martha, editor.

Raffe, Alasdair, editor.

Goodare, Julian, honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scotland--Politics and government--16th century.

Scotland.

Scotland--Politics and government--17th century.

Scotland--History--16th century.

Scotland--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : The state, society and witchcraft in early modern Scotland : Current debates and the influence of Julian Goodare / Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe

Legitimising authority : Rival ‘states’ and the Marian civil wars / Amy Blakeway

‘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

The Covenanters and the (re-)imagining of the Scottish constitution / Laura A. M. Stewart

A second restoration : Remaking the Scottish state, 1678–1685 / Alasdair Raffe

The Country Party and the Scottish Parliament, 1698–1704 / Ben Rogers

The Highland ‘other’ and Scottish state formation in the seventeenth century / Allan Kennedy

Governmental change and the experience of debtors in the early modern Scottish courts / Cathryn Spence

Controlling subjects : Shame, the state and the ritual of punishment in early modern Scotland / Harriet Cornell

Powerful objects : Coercion, restraint, torture and punishment in the Scottish National Collections / Anna Groundwater

The Great Tranent witch-hunt : Manufacturing imaginary enemies of the Scottish state / Louise Yeoman

‘A zealous prosecutor of witches’ : Ephraim Melville and the witch-hunt at South Queensferry, 1643–4 / Ciaran Jones

Enemies of God? Slander, gender and witchcraft in the Scottish parish / Michelle D. Brock

The afterlives of Thomas and Jean Weir / Michael F. Graham

State power revisited / Julian Goodare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 28, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Scottish state and the experience of government, c. 1560-1707

ISBN:

9781399526739

1399526731

9781399526722

1399526723

9781399526715

1399526715

OCLC:

1526228976

Publisher Number:

CIPO000244744

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access