Description: Explores the role of gender in shaping premodern Scottish identity and history
Brief description: Cathryn Spence is Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Guelph, Canada. She specialises in late medieval and early modern history, and is secretary for the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland. She is author of Women, Credit, and Debt in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester, 2016), which won the Women's History Network Prize, and co-editor with Aaron Allen of The Housemails Tax 1634-6 (Boydell, 2014).
Review Quotes: Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Gender History is flourishing, and this volume brings together its leading scholars to display the fruits. Themed around place, faith and politics, these cutting-edge essays consider questions of women's agency, presence and power in shaping Scottish society and economy. An important state of the field.--Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide