Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Notes on Contributors x
7. Introduction: The State, Society and Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: Current Debates and the Influence of Julian Goodare 1
8. Part I. The Scottish State
9. 1 Legitimising Authority: Rival ‘States’ and the Marian Civil Wars 29
10. 2 ‘He is not factious but simple and well disposed to justice’: John Graham, Third Earl of Montrose and the Stewart Revolution in Government 50
11. 3 The Covenanters and the (Re-)Imagining of the Scottish Constitution 68
12. 4 A Second Restoration: Remaking the Scottish State, 1678–1685 89
13. 5 The Country Party and the Scottish Parliament, 1698–1704 108
14. 6 The Highland ‘Other’ and Scottish State Formation in the Seventeenth Century 127
15. Part II. The Experience of Government
16. 7 Governmental Change and the Experience of Debtors in the Early Modern Scottish Courts 149
17. 8 Controlling Subjects: Shame, the State and the Ritual of Punishment in Early Modern Scotland 164
18. 9 Powerful Objects: Coercion, Restraint, Torture and Punishment in the Scottish National Collections 183
19. 10 The Great Tranent Witch-Hunt: Manufacturing Imaginary Enemies of the Scottish State 206
20. 11 ‘A zealous prosecutor of witches’: Ephraim Melville and the Witch-Hunt at South Queensferry, 1643–4 224
21. 12 Enemies of God? Slander, Gender and Witchcraft in the Scottish Parish 241
22. 13 The Afterlives of Thomas and Jean Weir 259
23. State Power Revisited 277
24. Bibliography of Julian Goodare 313
25. Index 319