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Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
Medieval Scotland was a patriarchal society, where authority was invested in men and in which women had a very limited legal status. Daughters were meant to be subservient to their fathers and wives to their husbands, with only widows able to own property and to represent themselves in law. [1]
On the one hand, great female Celts are known from mythology and history; on the other hand, their real status in the male-dominated Celtic tribal society was socially and legally constrained. Yet Celtic women were somewhat better placed in inheritance and marriage law than their Greek and Roman contemporaries.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: British: Scottish This category exists only as a container for other categories of Scottish women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
It includes Scottish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "14th-century Scottish women" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Isabella Skea was born in the Bridge of Don area of Aberdeen on 16 January 1845. Her parents were tenant farmers; George Chalmers and Isabella Low. [2]Having received encouragement from her schoolmaster, she trained at the Church of Scotland Normal College in Edinburgh circa 1866.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:16th-century Scottish people. It includes Scottish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh (1519–1569) was an aristocratic Scottish woman and a mistress of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. [1] She had a total of five husbands. One of her nieces was Mary Beaton, one of the four ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots, known in history as the four Marys.