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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.
Spinning was an expected part of the daily work of Medieval townswomen of all social classes. In crafts, women could sometimes be apprentices, but they could not join guilds in their own right. Scotland had fewer nunneries than male monasteries, but prioresses were figures with considerable authority. There may have been small numbers of ...
[1] [3] [4] [5] To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. [3] [4] [5] It is conceptually distinct from both the female biological sex and from womanhood, as all humans can exhibit feminine and masculine traits, regardless of sex and gender. [2]
It includes Scottish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "13th-century Scottish women" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Jean Fleming was born in 1553/4, daughter of James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming and Barbara Hamilton, a sister of Lord John Hamilton and Claude Hamilton.Upon Lord Fleming's death, his title and estates passed to her uncle John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming, and Jean Fleming had to resort to action in the Privy Council of Scotland to secure a share of the inheritance.
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.
In 1527, Margaret Erskine married Robert Douglas of Lochleven, [2] who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. She became the châtelaine of Lochleven Castle. She had two sons with James V after her marriage to Robert Douglas. [3] The first son, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, was Regent during the minority of James VI. [1]
Isobel Gowdie [a] was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life and, although she was probably executed in line with the usual practice, it is uncertain whether this was the case or if she was allowed to return to the obscurity of her former life as a ...