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What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries?Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ÃǾ²Ơ℗hard man' has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of what masculinity actually means for men (and women) in a Scottish context. This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, examining the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romance, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men ÃǾ²Ơ' work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce ÃǾ²Ơ' the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotland's gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history. Contributors Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide Angela Bartiem University of Edinburgh Rosalind Carr, University of East London Tanya Cheadle, University of Glasgow Harriet Cornell, University of Edinburgh Sarah Dunnigan, University of Edinburgh Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow Sergi Mainer, University of Edinburgh Jeffrey Meek, University of Glasgow Cynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University Janay Nugent, University of Lethbridge Tawny Paul, Northumbria University What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries?Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋hard man' has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of what masculinity actually means for men (and women) in a Scottish context. This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, examining the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romance, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men ÃǾ²Ơ' work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce ÃǾ²Ơ' the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotland's gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history. Contributors Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide Angela Bartiem University of Edinburgh Rosalind Carr, University of East London Tanya Cheadle, University of Glasgow Harriet Cornell, University of Edinburgh Sarah Dunnigan, University of Edinburgh Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow Sergi Mainer, University of Edinburgh Jeffrey Meek, University of Glasgow Cynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University Janay Nugent, University of Lethbridge Tawny Paul, Northumbria University

Children and youth have tended to be under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late eighteenth centuries with their lively experiences and voices. By examining medieval and early modern Scottish communities through the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions that young people are peripheral to our understanding of the political, economic, and social contexts of the premodern era. The topics addressed fall into three main sections: theexperience of being a child/adolescent; representations of the young; and the construction of the next generation. The individual essays examine the experience of the young at all levels of society, including princes and princesses, aristocratic and gentry youth, urban young people, rural children, and those who came to Scotland as slaves; they draw on evidence from art, personal correspondence, material culture, song, legal and government records, work and marriage contracts, and literature. Janay Nugent is an Associate Professor of History and a founding member of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Elizabeth Ewan is University Research Chair and Professor of History and Scottish Studies at the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Contributors: Katie Barclay, Stuart Campbell, Mairi Cowan, Sarah Dunnigan, Elizabeth Ewan, Anne Frater, Dolly MacKinnon, Cynthia J. Neville, Janay Nugent, Heather Parker, Jamie Reid Baxter, Cathryn R. Spence, Laura E. Walkling, Nel Whiting.

"The collection explores themes of movement, migration and mobility, including geographical and social mobility as well as themes of mobility and migration between or across literary genres, through the particular lens of gender, in both Scotland and the global Scottish diaspora, from the early medieval period to the modern era."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities in Scottish History -- PART I Models -- 1 'Be Wise in Thy Governing': Managing Emotion and Controlling Masculinity in Early Modern Scottish Poetry -- 2 Reformed Masculinity: Ministers, Fathers and Male Heads of Households, 1560-1660 -- 3 The Importance and Impossibility of Manhood: Polite and Libertine Masculinities in the Urban Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Taming of Highland Masculinity: Interpersonal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c. 1760-1840 -- PART II Representations -- 5 Making a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages -- 6 Contrasting Kingly and Knightly Masculinities in Barbour's Bruce -- 7 Negotiating Independence: Manliness and Begging Letters in Late Eighteenthand Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- 8 A Wartime Family Romance: Narratives of Masculinity and Intimacy during World War Two -- PART III Lived Experiences -- 9 Social Control and Masculinity in Early Modern Scotland: Expectations and Behaviour in a Lowland Parish -- 10 A 'Polite and Commercial People'? Masculinity and Economic Violence in Scotland, 1700-60 -- 11 Music Hall, 'Mashers' and the 'Unco Guid': Competing Masculinities in Victorian Glasgow -- 12 'That Class of Men': Effeminacy, Sodomy and Failed Masculinities in Inter- and Post-War Scotland -- 13 Speaking to the 'Hard Men': Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75 -- Index