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Historical Research and Reading List
Women In Scotland, c.1100-1750

• Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science From Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. Boston: 1986.
• Anderson, A.O., Editor. Anderson. Early Sources of Scottish History 500 to 1286. 1922; reprint, Edinburgh: 1990.
• Anderson, J. The Ladies of the Covenant. Glasgow: 1859.
• Balfour Paul, J., Editor. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: 1904-1914.
• Barbé, Louis A. Margaret of Scotland and the Dauphin Louis. London: Blackie, 1917.
• Black, R. The Genius of Cathal MacMhuirich. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, no. 50 (1976-78).
• Blaikie, A. Illegitimacy, Sex and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900. Oxford: 1993.
• Breitenbach, Esther and E. Gordon. The World Is Ill-Divided. Women's Work in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
• Breitenbach, Esther. Curiously Rare? Scottish Women of Interest and the Suppression of the Female in the Construction of National Identity. Scottish Affairs 18, no. Winter (1997).
• Brotherstone, T., Editor. Gendering Scottish History; an International Approach. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999.
• Brown, Keith M. Bloodfeud in Scotland, 1573-1625: Violence, Justice and Politics in an Early Modern Society. Edinburgh: 1986.
• Brown, M.K. The Laird, His Daughter, Her Husband and the Minister: Unravelling a Popular Ballad. In People and Power in Scotland, eds. R. Mason and N. MacDougall, 105-25. Edinburgh: 1992.
• Bruford, A. Scottish Gaelic Witch Stories: A Provisional Type-List. Scottish Studies, no. 2 (1967).
• Bruford, A. Workers, Weepers and Witches: The Status of the Female Singer in Gaelic Society. Scottish Gaelic Studies, no. 17 (1996).
• Buchan, A. A Description of St. Kilda, the Most Remote Western Isle of Scotland. Edinburgh: 1727.
• Buchanan, G. The History of Scotland. Translated by J. Aikman. Glasgow & Edinburgh: 1827-9.
• Buchanan, J.L. Travels in the Western Hebrides From 1782 to 1790. Waternish: 1997.
• Buchanan, P.H. Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots. London: 1985.
• Cadden, Joan. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, Culture. Cambridge: 1993.
• Campbell, J.L. and Collinson, F., Editors. Hebridean Folksongs. Oxford: 1969-81.
• Cherry, Alastair. Princes, Poets, and Patrons: The Stuarts and Scotland. Edinburgh: 1987.
• Clark, A. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. London: 1919.
• Cowan, J.B. and D.E. Easson. Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland. 2nd ed. London: 1976.
• Craig, Maggie. Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45. Edinburgh: 1997.
• Dalrymple, J. Collections Concerning the Scottish History Preceding the Death of King David the First. Edinburgh: 1705.
• Davies, S.J. The Courts and the Scottish Legal System, 1600-1747: The Case of Stirlingshire. In Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe Since 1500, eds. V.A.C. Gatrell, B. Lenman and G. Parker. London: 1980.
• DesBrisay, G. Menacing Their Persons and Exacting on Their Purses: The Aberdeen Justice Court, 1657-1700. In From Lairds to Louns: Country and Burgh Life in Aberdeen, 1600-1800, ed. D. Stevenson. Aberdeen: 1986.
• Devine, T.M. Temporary Migration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century. Economic History Review, no. 32 (1979): 348-51.
• Dingwall, H. Late Seventeenth Century Edinburgh; A Demographic Study. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994.
• Dodgshon, R.A. Land and Society in Early Scotland. Oxford: 1981.
• Donnachie, I. A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland. Edinburgh: 1979.
• Downie, Fiona. Sche Is But a Womman: The Queen and Princess in Scotland, 1424-63. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Aberdeen, 1998.
• Dunbar, William. The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo. In The Poems Of William Dunbar, ed. William Mackay Mackenzie. Edinburgh: 1932.
• Dunlevy, M. Dress in Ireland. London: 1989.
• Dunlop, Annie. Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century. In Historical Association Pamphlet, No.124. London: 1982.
• Dunnigan, Sarah. Reclaiming the Language of Love and Desire in the Scottish Renaissance: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Late Sixteenth Century Female Voiced Love Lyric. In Later Sixteenth- Century Scots Literature, eds. Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood.
• Dunnigan, Sarah. Scottish Women Writers C.1560-C.1650. In History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy Macmillan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
• Dyer, C. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: 1989.
• Easson, D.E. The Nunneries of Medieval Scotland. Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society 13, no. 2 (1940-1941): 22.
• Edington, Carol. Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount. Amherst: 1994.
• Elliot, Dyan. Spiritual Marriage. Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. Princeton: 1993.
• Ewan, Elizabeth. Scottish Portias: Women in the Courts in Medieval Towns. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 3 (1992).
• Ewan, Elizabeth. Women's History in Scotland: Towards an Agenda. Innes Review 46 (1995): 155-64.
• Ewan, Elizabeth. A Realm of One's Own: The Place of Medieval and Early Modern Women in Scottish History. In Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach, ed. T. Brotherstone. Glasgow: 1999.
• Ewan, Elizabeth. Mons Meg and Merchant Meg: Women in Edinburgh in the Later Middle Ages. In Freedom and Authority: Scotland C.1050-C.1650, eds. T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000.
• Ewan, Elizabeth. Townlife in Fourteenth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
• Fildes, V. Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Edinburgh: 1986.
• Fildes, V. Wet Nursing: A History From Antiquity to the Present. Oxford: 1988.
• Fiser, Sheila and Janet Halley. Seeking the Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism. Knoxville: 1989.
• Fletcher, A. Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500-1800. London: 1995.
• Flinn, M.W. Scottish Population History From the 17th Century to the 1930's. Cambridge: 1977.
• Frase-Mackintosh, C. Letters of Four Centuries. Inverness: 1890.
• Gibson, A.J.S. Scottish Food and Scottish History, 1500-1800. In Scottish Society 1500-1800, eds. R. Houston and I. Whyte. Cambridge: 1988.
• Gibson, A.J.S. and T.C. Smout. Food and Hierarchy in Scotland, 1550-1650. In Perspectives in Scottish Social History, ed. L. Leneman. Aberdeen: 1988.
• Gibson, A.J.S. Prices, Food and Wages in Early Modern Scotland, 1550-1780. Cambridge: 1995.
  Gifford, D. and McMillan, D., Editors. A History of Scottish Women's Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
• Gill, D. Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women. Oxford: 1977.
• Gillies, W. Courtly and Satiric Poems in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Scottish Studies, no. 21 (1977): 35-53.
• Goodare, J. Women and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland. Social History 23, no. 3 (1998): 288-308.
  Goody, J. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Cambridge: 1983.
• Gordon, E. and Esther Breitenbach. Out of Bounds. Women in Scottish Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
• Graham, H. 'A Woman's Work...': Labour and Gender in the Late Medieval Countryside. In Woman Is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society C.1200-1500, ed. J.J.P. Goldberg. Stroud: Sutton, 1992.
• Graham, H. A Group Of Scottish Women. London: 1908.
• Graham, H. The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, (2 Vols). London: 1899.
• Graham, Michael F. The Uses of Reform: 'Godly Discipline' and Popular Behaviour in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
• Graham-Campbell, D. The Younger Generations in Argyll At the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. Scottish Studies, no. 18 (1974): 91.
• Grant, I.F. Highland Folk Ways. London: 1977.
• Hanawalt, B.A. Peasant Women's Contribution to the Home Economy in the Late Medieval England. In Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe, ed. B. Hanawalt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Harley, David. From Providence to Nature: The Moral Theology and Godly Practice of Maternal Breast-Feeding in Stuart England. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, no. 69 (1995): 204.
• Harthan, John. Books of Hours and Their Owners. London: 1977.
• Hendry, Joy. Snug in an Asylum of Taciturnity: Women's History in Scotland. In The Manufacture of Scottish History, eds. I. Donnachie and C. Whatley. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992.
• Heywood, T. Gynaikeion (1624). In The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman, ed. N.H. Keeble. London: Routledge, 1994.
• Hill, B. Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England. London: 1989.
• Honeyman, K. and J. Goodman. Women's Work, Gender Conflict, and Labour Markets in Europe 1500-1900. Economic History Review 44, no. 4 (1991): 610.
• Hopkins, P. Glencoe and the End of the Highland War. Edinburgh: 1986.
• Houston, R.A. Age At Marriage of Scottish Women, Circa 1660-1770. Local Population Studies, no. 43 (1987): 63-6.
• Houston, R.A. and I.D. Whyte, Editors. Women in the Economy and Society of Scotland, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Houston, R.A. and I.D. Whyte, Editors. Scottish Society 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Innes, C., Editor. Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland 1124-1424. Edinburgh: Scottish Burgh Record Society, 1868.
• Kerrigan, Catherine, Editor. An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
• King, E. The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women. Edinburgh: 1993.
• King, E. The History of the Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement. Glasgow: 1978.
• Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Editor. A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages (2 Vols). Cambridge, MA: 1994.
• Knox, John. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. In The Works Of John Knox, ed. D. Laing. Edinburgh: 1895.
• Knox, John. A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI. London: J. Walter, 1787.
• Kowaleski, M. and Judith Bennett. Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages. In Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, eds. J. Bennett and et al. Chicago: 1989.
• Lady Margaret Cunninghame, Lady Waristoun, Edited by C.K. Sharpe. A Memorial of the Conversion of Jean Livinston, Lady Waristoun, with an Account of Her Carriage At Her Execution, July 1600. Edinburgh: 1827.
• Larner, C. Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland. London: 1981.
• Lawrie, A.C., Editor. Annals of the Reigns of Malcolm and William Kings of Scotland A.D. 1153-1214. Glasgow: 1910
• Leneman, L. Girls in Trouble: The Social and Geographical Setting of Illegitimacy in Early Modern Scotland. Journal of Social History, no. 21 (1988).
• Leneman, L. Scottish Illegitimacy Ratios in the Early Modern Period. Economic History Review 2nd Ser., no. 40 (1987).
• Leneman, L. and R. Mitchison. Clandestine Marriages in the Scottish Cities, 1660-1780. Journal of Social History, no. 26 (1993): 846.
• Lindesay, R. of Piscottie. The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1899-1911.
• Livingston, William. The Conflict in Conscience of a Dear Christian, Named Bessie Clarksone. Edinburgh: 1631.
• Lomperis, Linda and Stanbury, Sarah, Editors. Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
• Mac Craith, M.S. Gaelic Courtly Love Poetry: A Window on the Renaissance. In Celtic Languages and Celtic Peoples, eds. C. Byrne and et al. Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1992.
• MacDonald, Stuart. Threats to a Godly Society. A Witch-Hunt in Fife, Scotland 1560-1710. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Guelph, 1997.
• MacGregor, A.G.M. History of the Clan Gregor. Edinburgh: 1989.
• MacPhail, J.R.N., Editor. Highland Papers (4 Vols). Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1914-34.
  MacQueen, J, Editor. Ballatis of Luve. Edinburgh: 1970.
• Marshall, R.K. Wet-Nursing in Scotland, 1500-1800. Review of Scottish Culture, no. 1 (1984): 48-9.
• Marshall, R.K. Mary of Guise. London: 1977.
• Marshall, R.K. Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland From 1080 to 1980. London: 1983.
• Martin, Martin. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695. 1703; reprint, Stirling: 1934.
• Mayhew, N. The Status of Women and the Brewing of Ale in Medieval Aberdeen. Review of Scottish Culture, no. 10 (1996-7).
• McMath, J. The Expert Mid-Wife: A Treatise of the Disease of Women with Child, and in Childbed. Edinburgh: 1694.
  Meikle, Maureen M. A Meddlesome Princess: Anna of Denmark and Scottish Court Politics, 1589-1603. In The Reign of James VI1, eds. M. Lynch and J. Goodare. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000.
• Meikle, Maureen M. Victims, Viragos and Vamps: Women of the Sixteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Frontier. In Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, C.1000 to 1700, eds. P. Dalton and J. Appleby. Gloucester: 1997.
• Mill, Anna Jean. Medieval Plays in Scotland. Edinburgh: 1927.
• Mitchison, R. and L. Leneman. Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland 1680-1780. Oxford: 1989.
  Mullan, D. Mistress Rutherford's Narrative: A Scottish Puritan Autobiography. Bunyan Studies 7 (1977): 13-37.
• Murray, E. A Gallery Of Scottish Women. London?: 1935.
• Murray, E. Scottish Homespun. London: 1947.
• Murray, E. Scottish Women in Bygone Days. London: 1930.
• Newlyn, Evelyn S. Of Vertew Nobillest and Serpent Wrinkis: The Taxonomy of the Female in the Bannatyne Manuscript. Scotia, no. 14 (1990): 1-12.
• Newlyn, Evelyn S. The Female Voice in Selected Middle Scottish Poetry. In Later Sixteenth-Century Scots Literature, eds. Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood.
• Newlyn, Evelyn S. The Function of the Female Monster in Middle Scots Poetry: Misogyny, Patriarchy, and the Satiric Myth. In Misogyny in Literature, ed. K. Ackley. London: 1992.
• Newlyn, Evelyn S. The Political Dimensions of Desire and Sexuality in the Poems of the Bannatyne Manuscript. In Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature, ed. S. McKenna. Lewiston: 1992.
• Nicholls, K.W. Irishwomen and Property in the Sixteenth Century. In Women in Early Modern Ireand, eds. M. McCurtain and M. O'Dowd. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
• O'Sullivan, T. Developments in Love Poetry in Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, Before 1650. B.Litt., University of Glasgow, 1971.
• Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: 1983.
• Paton, G.C. Husband and Wife: Property Rights and Relationships. In Introduction to the Study of Scottish Legal History. Edinburgh: Stair Society, 1954.
• Paton, Henry. The Clan Campbell: Abstracts of Entries Relating to Campbells in the Sheriff Court Books of Argyll At Inveraray. Edinburgh: 1913.
• Pitcairn, R., Editor. Criminal Trials in Scotland from 1488 to 1624 (3 Vols). Edinburgh: 1833.
  Power, E. Medieval English Nunneries C.1275 to 1535. Cambridge: 1922.
• Renwick, Robert, Editor. Charters and Other Documents Relating to the Royal Burgh of Stirling A.D. 1124-1705. Glasgow: 1884.
• Sanderson, E.C. Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh. Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1996.
• Scottish History Society. Charter by Malcolm, Son of Earl Duncan, to the Nuns of North Berwick. Miscellany, no. 4.
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• Sellar, W.D.H. The Common Law of Scotland and the Common Law of England. In The British Isles 1100-1500: Comparisons, Contrasts and Connections, ed. R.R. Davies. Edinburgh: 1988.
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• Simms, K. Women in Gaelic Society During the Age of Transition. In Women in Early Modern Ireand, eds. M. MacCurtain and M. O'Dowd. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
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• Symonds, Deborah A. Weep Not For Me. Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. University Park, Penn.: 1997.
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• Walker, Garthine. Women, Theft and the World of Stolen Goods. In Women, Crime and the Courts, eds. J. Kermode and G. Walker.
• Watlet, C.A. Women and the Economic Transformation of Scotland C.1740-1830. Scottish Economic and Social History, no. 14 (1994): 19.
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