Boydell Press Deviance and Marginality in Early Modern Scotland (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History)

Focusing on a range of behaviours, including irregular sex, violent and verbal assault, petty connection between deviance and marginality in early modern Scotland, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries criminality, piracy, political dissidence, and religious nonconformity, this book explores the. It assesses why certain behaviours were judged to deserve social marginalisation, what mechanisms were used to enforce this, how individual and groups responded to it, and what opportunities existed for avoiding, escaping, or mitigating its effects.