Elizabeth Ewan

• PhD (Scot History) Edinburgh
• Professor at University of Guelph

An introduction to the Digital Humanities Special Feature.

This chapter introduces the study of masculinities in Scotland and Scottish history. It discusses the importance of considering gender when examining the lives and actions of men, before providing a brief historiography of the study of masculinity in recent decades, including such concepts as hegemonic masculinity and patriarchy. The chapter provid...

This collection of essays examines the lives of young people in medieval and early modern Scotland. The three main sections looks at 1) the experience of being a child/adolescent; 2) representations of the young 3) the construction of the next generation.

Children and youth have tended to be under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late eighteenth centuries with their lively experiences and voices. By examining medieval and early modern Scottish communities through...

examines the provision of schooling in Scottish medieval towns

Dan Embree, Edward Donald Kennedy and Kathleen Dal, eds. Short Scottish Prose Chronicles Translated by Susan Edgington. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. 403. ISBN 9781843837459. £60.00.

Matthew Hammond, ed., New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland 1093-1286. Studies in Celtic History, 32. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 256. ISBN 978-1-84383-853-1. £60.00.

Historians have tended to ignore formulaic phrases in medieval documents, focusing on the rest of the text. Kopaczyk’s book provides a timely reminder that such formulae can shed light on the historical period in which they were used. Bringing together linguistics, law, and history, she suggests new avenues of research into medieval society. Althou...

Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph, eewan@uoguelph.ca

Jack Whyte. The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace. Toronto: Viking Group, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 483. ISBN 978-06-7006-846-3. CAD$36.00.

edited collection of essays exploring issues of family and identity in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Can be ordered through the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph as scottish@uoguelph.ca

website portal for the study of women in Scottish history. Includes searchable bibliography, details for other reesearchers in field, links to other sites, primary sources and short biographical entries

In her 1986 overview of medieval women’s lives, Margaret Wade Labarge drew attention to women’s verbal assertiveness. Since then, there have been many innovative studies of medieval and early modern women’s ‘disorderly speech,’ studies which have greatly advanced our understanding of premodern gender relations, dynamics of household and community,...

This study uses the court records of eight pre-Reformation Scottish towns to examine women's involvement as perpetrators of violent physical assaults in their communities. It examines the nature of the assaults, including whether women were more likely to act alone or with others, the role of family and household, the types of victims, and the weap...

a survey of research in Scottish Studies in universities in Canada in 2009

In comparison to the field in many other countries, women's history in Scotland is a relatively new area of research. This is especially true for the history of late medieval and early modern women. Although some work appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scottish women's history did not really develop as a field until the...

KingAndy and PenmanMichael, eds. England and Scotland in the Fourteenth Century: New Perspectives. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007. Pp. xii+269. $80.00 (cloth). - Volume 48 Issue 1 - Elizabeth Ewan

A collection of essays examining the family in medieval and early modern Scotland. It suggests new sources for the topic, as well as themes for further investigation. It looks at how the Scottish family compared to the family elsewhere in Europe.

BrownChris. William Wallace: The True Story of Braveheart. Stroud: Tempus, 2005. Pp. 288. $22.95 (paper). - Volume 46 Issue 1 - Elizabeth Ewan

entries on over 800 women from Scottish history to 2004

KellarClare. Scotland, England, and the Reformation, 1534–1561. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. 257. $72.00 (cloth). - Volume 44 Issue 4 - Elizabeth Ewan

examines the by-employments of sixteenth-century Scottish female domestic servants, including laundering, brewing, and money-lending

William Wallace and Robert Bruce, heroes of the First War of Independence, are known throughout Scotland and beyond, but other heroic figures from the tales of the Second War of Independence (1333–41) are less well known. According to historians writing in late medieval Scotland, just as Wallace and Bruce defied Edward I and II, so Lady Seton of Be...

The study of the medieval world has declined considerably in the last decade at the University of Guelph. Medieval studies has traditionally been discipline-based rather than interdisciplinary here; as a result the low priority accorded to the medieval period in various departments meant that retirements or departures by faculty during the 1990’s l...

This article examines the role of women in the economy of medieval Scottish towns, focussing especially on the brewing industry, an area which was dominated by women. All adult women were expected to know how to brew, and many women turned this skill into an opportunity to earn money. They were both professionial and part-time brewsters, supplying...

A collection of essays on women`s lives in medieval and early modern Scotland. The essays examine such topics as images of women, women`s role in economic life, the family, religion and piety, and women`s contribution to literature and culture

examines the work done on medieval and early modern Scottish women's history until the mid 1990s

By studying the fifteenth and early sixteenth-century records of several Scottish towns, this paper examines the roles of women in the town courts of mediaeval Scotland. It argues that, although women faced certain legal disadvantages, they were able to make use of the courts to advance their own interests. An examination of the actions of these wo...

A study of life in Scottish towns in the fourteenth century. The book looks at material conditions of life, local government, trade, religion, and the role of the towns in the larger kingdom.