Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp xiv-xv

Abbreviations and Conventions

pp xvi-xvi

Introduction: Adding Age and Generation as a Category of Historical Analysis

pp 1-12

Part I - Experiences of Childhood and Youth

pp 13-14

1 - A ‘Gret Cradil of Stait’: Growing Up with the Court of James IV

pp 15-31

2 - A Perl for Your Debts?: Young Women and Apprenticeships in Early Modern Edinburgh

pp 32-46

3 - ‘Your Louing Childe and Foster’: The Fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll, 1633–39

pp 47-64

4 - Work and Play: The Material Culture of Childhood in Early Modern Scotland

pp 65-86

Part II - Representations of the Young

pp 87-88

5 - Clann and Clan: Children of the Gaelic Nobility, c.1500–c.1800

pp 89-103

6 - Depictions of Childhood in David Allan’s Family Group Portraiture of the 1780s

pp 104-119

7 - Slave Children: Scotland’s Children as Chattels at Home and Abroad in the Eighteenth Century

pp 120-135

8 - Natural Affection, Children, and Family Inheritance Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century

pp 136-152

Part III - Constructing the Next Generation

pp 153-154

9 - Preparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264–84

pp 155-172

10 - ‘At thair perfect age’: Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430–1560

pp 173-186

11 - Sons and Daughters, ‘Young Wyfis’ and ‘Barnis’: Lyric, Gender, and the Imagining of Youth in the Maitland Manuscripts

pp 187-202

Envoi In Their Own Words: A Mother to Her Son

pp 203-204

12 - Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Two Letters to Her Son James

pp 205-220

Guide to Further Reading

pp 221-226

Index

pp 227-234

St Andrew Studies in Scottish History

pp 235-235