Table of Contents

ContentsList of FiguresSeries Editors' ForwardChristopher A. Whatley and Elizabeth FoysterIntroduction: Everyday Life in Medieval ScotlandEdward J. Cowan and Lizanne HendersonChapter 1. Landscape and PeopleFiona WatsonChapter 2. The Worldview of Scottish Vikings in the Age of the SagasEdward J. CowanChapter 3. Sacred and Banal: The Discovery of Everyday Medieval Material CultureJenny Shiels and Stuart CampbellChapter 4. The FamilyDavid SellarChapter 5. 'Hamperit in ane hony came': Sights, Sounds and Smells in the Medieval TownElizabeth EwanChapter 6. Playtime Everday: The Material Culture of Medieval GamingMark HallChapter 7. Women of Independence in Barbour's Bruce and Blind Harry's WallaceRebecca BoorsmaChapter 8. Everyday Life in the Histories of Scotland from Walter Bower to George BuchananNicola RoyanChapter 9. Disease, Death and the Hereafter in Medieval ScotlandRichard D. OramChapter 10. 'Detestable Slaves of the Devil': Changing Ideas about Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century ScotlandLizanne HendersonChapter 11. Glasgwegians: The First One Thousand YearsEdward J. CowanChapter 12. Marian Devotion in Scotland and the Shrine of LoretoAudrey-Beth FitchAnnotated BibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

About the Author

Edward J. Cowan, Emeritus Professor, formerly Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of the university’s Dumfries Campus, previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Guelph, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is much in demand as a speaker, journalist and broadcaster and has been a Visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His most recent publications are The Wallace Book (revised edition 2010), For Freedom Alone: The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 (revised edition 2008), and Folk in Print: Scotland’s Chapbook Heritage (2007). He is currently working on a book on The Arctic Scots. Lizanne Henderson is Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture (2009) and co-author, with Edward J. Cowan, of Scottish Fairy Belief: A History (2007).

Reviews

A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland demonstrates the value of innovative, interdisciplinary approaches for offsetting the limitations of conventional historical methodoloy in reconstructing the day-to-day lives of ordinary Scotland.--Allan Kennedy, University of Stirling "History Scotland, Sept/Oct 2012"