10 ‘At thair perfect age’: Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430–1560

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Abbreviations and Conventions xvi
7. Introduction Adding Age and Generation as a Category of Historical Analysis 1
8. Part I Experiences of Childhood and Youth
9. 1 A ‘gret cradil of stait’: Growing up with the Court of James IV 15
10. 2 A Perl for Your Debts?: Young Women and Apprenticeships in Early Modern Edinburgh 32
11. 3 ‘Your louing childe and foster’: The Fostering of Archie Campbell of Argyll, 1633–39 47
12. 4 Work and Play: The Material Culture of Childhood in Early Modern Scotland 65
13. Part II Representations of the Young
14. 5 Clann and Clan: Children of the Gaelic Nobility c.1500–c.1800 89
15. 6 Depictions of Childhood in David Allan’s Family Group Portraiture of the 1780s 104
16. 7 Slave Children: Scotland’s Children as Chattels at Home and Abroad in the Eighteenth Century 120
17. 8 Natural Affection, Children, and Family Inheritance Practices in the Long Eighteenth Century 136
18. Part III Constructing the Next Generation
19. 9 Preparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264–84 155
20. 10 ‘At thair perfect age’: Elite Child Betrothal and Parental Control, 1430–1560 173
21. 11 Sons and Daughters, ‘young wyfis’ and ‘barnis’: Lyric, Gender, and the Imagining of Youth in the Maitland Manuscripts 187
22. Envoi. In Their Own Words: A Mother to Her Son
23. 12 Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Two Letters to Her Son James 205
24. Guide to Further Reading 221
25. Index 227