Deviance and Marginality in Early Modern Scotland - Couverture rigide

 
9781837650224: Deviance and Marginality in Early Modern Scotland

Synopsis

Focusing on a range of behaviours, including irregular sex, violent and verbal assault, petty connection between deviance and marginality in early modern Scotland, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries criminality, piracy, political dissidence, and religious nonconformity, this book explores the. It assesses why certain behaviours were judged to deserve social marginalisation, what mechanisms were used to enforce this, how individual and groups responded to it, and what opportunities existed for avoiding, escaping, or mitigating its effects.

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À propos des auteurs

ALLAN KENNEDY is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

J.R.D. (Rob) FALCONER is an Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.

SALVATORE CIPRIANO is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education, Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Fordham University.

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