Table of Contents

1 Exploring the supernatural in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare and Martha McGill
2 The elrich poems: the supernatural and the textual – Janet Hadley Williams
3 Emotional relationships with spirit-guides in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare
4 Experiencing the invisible polity: trance in early modern Scotland – Georgie Blears
5 The ninety-nine dancers of Moaness: Orkney women between the visible and invisible – Liv Helene Willumsen
6 Angels in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill
7 Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500–1840 – Michael B. Riordan
8 Astrology and supernatural power in early modern Scotland – Jane Ridder-Patrick
9 Fallen spirits and divine grace: sermons and the supernatural in post-Reformation Scotland – Michelle D. Brock
10 The uses of providence in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe
11 The invention of Highland Second Sight – Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart
12 The pagan supernatural in the Scottish Enlightenment – Felicity Loughlin
13 Eighteenth-century Scotland and the visionary supernatural – Hamish Mathison
Index

About the Author

Julian Goodare is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh

Martha McGill is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick