Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Centring the Margins

pp 1-14

Part I - Social Margins

pp 15-16

1 - Disability and the Domestic Sphere in Early Modern Scotland

pp 17-31

2 - Relieving the Poor in Mid-Seventeenth-Century East Fife

pp 32-46

3 - The Marginalisation of Gypsies in Scotland, 1573–c. 1625

pp 47-61

4 - Burgesses on the Edge

pp 62-78

5 - Enslaved and Formerly Enslaved Young People in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scotland

pp 79-94

Part II - Occupational Margins

pp 95-96

6 - Working on the Margins: Freemen, Unfreemen, and Stallangers in Early Modern Scotland

pp 97-113

7 - The Life of the Lockman

pp 114-129

8 - ‘Huirdome and Harlettrie’: Female Sex Workers in Early Modern Edinburgh, 1689–1760

pp 130-144

9 - Navigating Marginality: The Coal Mine Workers of Seventeenth-Century Scotland

pp 145-160

Part III - Contemplating Marginality

pp 161-162

10 - Migrants, Itinerants, and the Marginality of Mobility in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

pp 163-178

11 - Seeking the Lord, Seeking a Husband: Navigating Marginality in the Diary of Rachel Brown (1736–8)

pp 179-193

12 - Queering the Castalian: James VI and I and ‘Narratives of Blood’

pp 194-209

Afterword

pp 210-214

Index

pp 215-228

St Andrews Studies in Scottish History

pp 229-229