02051 a2200313 4500 1032492120 20250328151422.0 250324022025GB 18 eng 9781032492124 BB Taylor & Francis GBP 145.00 BB 01 eng NHD thema NHTB thema N thema 3M bisac HBJD1 bic HBTB bic HBLH bic HIS015000 bisac HIS037090 bisac HIS000000 bisac Claire McNulty Edinburgh's Unruly Women Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560–1660 1 Oxford Routledge 20250310 174 p Edinburgh's Unruly Women examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as age, gender, marital status, and social rank. Adopting a case study approach, the book illuminates the voices of ordinary women as they appeared before their local kirk session (church court) where they navigated the church court system to settle neighbourly disputes, negotiate marriage contracts, or free their husbands from allegations of adultery. Edinburgh's Unruly Women argues that in the context of a deeply patriarchal society, experiences of discipline could not have been universal, but that in creating this strict culture of self-monitoring, the Church created opportunities for women to express power over one another, and indeed, over their male contemporaries. By placing female parishioners at the heart of the book, filled with individual case studies, Edinburgh's Unruly Women appeals to students and scholars of early modern women, religion, and gender more broadly, and to those with more specialist interest in both ecclesiastical discipline and the history of early modern Scotland in the localities. 8282 8282