Cathryn Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathryn Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-7411-548X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
By her own mouth speaking’
This article uses women's wills and testaments written in Scotland prior to 1600 to look for women's authoritative voices. Will-making was an activity open to everyone in early modern Scotland and, far from being solely formulaic, sixteenth-century wills and testaments were documents in which women could, and did, make specific wishes and bequests known, often quite explicitly. In doing so, these women used their knowledge of their legal rights, …
Married Women, Testaments and Property in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
This article responds to the debate about married women’s legal position in pre-modern Scotland and how it compared with neighbouring countries, particularly whether married women could own property and of what that might consist. While many studies centre theoretical discussions and focus on the seventeenth century onwards, this article centres sixteenth-century records of practice by appraising the 14,664 testamentary documents that survive in …
Murray Pittock, Enlightenment in a Smart City
T awny P aul . The Poverty of Disaster
When discussing credit historically, much of the focus has tended toward the positive, the successes, and particularly how credit provided access to capital and therefore fueled economic development and growth. But there was another side to the story—those for whom access to credit spelled increased insecurity rather than success. In The Poverty of Disaster, Tawny Paul masterfully brings the experiences of these people to the fore, focusing on Br…
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
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 the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions that young people are peripheral to…
Married Women and the Law
The legal experience of wives is an issue that has been increasingly discussed and problematised in historical discourse in recent years. Central to these debates has been the common law doctrine of coverture, which held that a husband’s legal identity covered that of his wife. The present book, edited by Tim Stretton and Krista Kesselring, is an important addition to this corpus of work, interrogating as it does the legal disabilities and opport…
Attending to Early Modern Women
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent SHENNAN Hutton
Women and Business in Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh
By her own mouth speaking’
This article uses women's wills and testaments written in Scotland prior to 1600 to look for women's authoritative voices. Will-making was an activity open to everyone in early modern Scotland and, far from being solely formulaic, sixteenth-century wills and testaments were documents in which women could, and did, make specific wishes and bequests known, often quite explicitly. In doing so, these women used their knowledge of their legal rights, …
Married Women, Testaments and Property in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
This article responds to the debate about married women’s legal position in pre-modern Scotland and how it compared with neighbouring countries, particularly whether married women could own property and of what that might consist. While many studies centre theoretical discussions and focus on the seventeenth century onwards, this article centres sixteenth-century records of practice by appraising the 14,664 testamentary documents that survive in …
Women and Business in Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent SHENNAN Hutton
Attending to Early Modern Women
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
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 the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions that young people are peripheral to…
Married Women and the Law
The legal experience of wives is an issue that has been increasingly discussed and problematised in historical discourse in recent years. Central to these debates has been the common law doctrine of coverture, which held that a husband’s legal identity covered that of his wife. The present book, edited by Tim Stretton and Krista Kesselring, is an important addition to this corpus of work, interrogating as it does the legal disabilities and opport…
Murray Pittock, Enlightenment in a Smart City
T awny P aul . The Poverty of Disaster
When discussing credit historically, much of the focus has tended toward the positive, the successes, and particularly how credit provided access to capital and therefore fueled economic development and growth. But there was another side to the story—those for whom access to credit spelled increased insecurity rather than success. In The Poverty of Disaster, Tawny Paul masterfully brings the experiences of these people to the fore, focusing on Br…
By her own mouth speaking’
This article uses women's wills and testaments written in Scotland prior to 1600 to look for women's authoritative voices. Will-making was an activity open to everyone in early modern Scotland and, far from being solely formulaic, sixteenth-century wills and testaments were documents in which women could, and did, make specific wishes and bequests known, often quite explicitly. In doing so, these women used their knowledge of their legal rights, …
Married Women, Testaments and Property in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
This article responds to the debate about married women’s legal position in pre-modern Scotland and how it compared with neighbouring countries, particularly whether married women could own property and of what that might consist. While many studies centre theoretical discussions and focus on the seventeenth century onwards, this article centres sixteenth-century records of practice by appraising the 14,664 testamentary documents that survive in …
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
History (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works)