A Regional Comparison of the Witch-hunt in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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dc.contributor.advisorGoddard, Peter
dc.contributor.authorClark, Brenna
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T12:52:16Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T12:52:16Z
dc.date.copyright2021-09
dc.date.created2021-09-13
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.grantorUniversity of Guelphen_US
dc.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US
dc.degree.programmeHistoryen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis uses sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trial records from the Orkney and Shetland islands to better understand the pattern of the Scottish witch-hunt at both a regional and national level. It analyzes the specific local and central religiopolitical imperatives that brought the Scottish witch-hunt to this culturally distinct insular region during an age of religious reformation. Examinations of Privy Council records and witchcraft trial records from the first witch-hunt in the Northern Isles reveal a clash between the islands’ customary quasi-independence and a centralizing, bureaucratic monarchy under King James VI. Details from cases in this specific region of Scotland also challenge received ideas about what elements officials focused on to secure convictions, notably the role of the Devil. Other characteristics of insular cases demonstrate consistency with Lowland cases, suggesting a common concern across Scotland to enforce correct and consistent forms of reformed worship and behaviour.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10214/26438
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Guelphen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectWitchcraften_US
dc.subjectScottish witch-hunten_US
dc.subjectEarly modernen_US
dc.subjectOrkneyen_US
dc.subjectShetlanden_US
dc.subjectNorthern Islesen_US
dc.subjectScotlanden_US
dc.subjectComparativeen_US
dc.subjectRegionalen_US
dc.titleA Regional Comparison of the Witch-hunt in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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