Edinburgh's Unruly Women

Auteur

Claire McNulty is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a Manuscripts for Medieval Studies Project at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Claire is interested in the lived female experience of church discipline across early modern Edinburgh, Scotland, and beyond, and its intersection with ideas on gender, sexuality, and power. She has published an article on 'A Case of Adultery in Trinity College, Edinburgh, 1638' (2023) and 'Gryt Abuse is Found in this Toune: James Sharpe in South Leith, 1639-1645' in Chris R. Langley et al. (eds), The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (2021). She has convened research-led modules on 'Women, Sex, and Power in Early Modern Europe' and 'Witch-hunting from Early Modernity to the Present Day' at Queen's University Belfast (2022; 2021) where she also completed her doctoral research.

Texte du rabat

Edinburgh's Unruly Women examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as age, gender, marital status, and social rank.

Résumé
Edinburgh's Unruly Women examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as age, gender, marital status, and social rank.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Gender and the Church Courts in Early Modern Edinburgh 2. Agency, Authority, and Power before the Edinburgh Courts 3. Working Women of South Leith 4. Poor Women of St Cuthbert's 5. Sexuality and the Sacraments in Canongate Conclusion