The construction and regulation of gendered crime in Scottish witchcraft cases, 1560-1661

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dc.contributor.authorLorne, Zoey M.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorNugent, Janay
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T20:40:38Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T20:40:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe topic of this thesis addresses an understudied piece in the history of the Scottish witch-hunts, how the prosecution of witchcraft constructed and regulated gender. This paper looks at how the prosecution of witchcraft through the Scottish Witchcraft Act of 1563, reflected the regulation of ideal gender expression through the developing legal system, centralizing state, Reformation and modernizing economy. Paramount to this discussion is the way that women accused of witchcraft challenged the early modern patriarchal order, expectations of piety, and ultimately the expectations of their gender. Witchcraft accusations targeted women who were seen as unruly, transgressive and argumentative. The political, religious and economic processes required the witch-hunts to assert and reinforce the authority of church and state in the lives of early modern women. These systems intersected to structure early modern women’s ideal behaviour, and therefore also their deviance, casting them as witches.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5527
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0453en_US
dc.proquest.subject0335en_US
dc.proquest.subject0320en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Department of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectcriminal trialsen_US
dc.subjectgender regulationen_US
dc.subjectScottish witch-huntsen_US
dc.subjectsocial orderen_US
dc.subjectstate centralizationen_US
dc.subjectunified law codeen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleThe construction and regulation of gendered crime in Scottish witchcraft cases, 1560-1661en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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