Books written by Julian Goodare

  • The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625
    The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625

    The expanding institutions of government - crown, parliament, privy council, local courts - are detailed, but the book is structured around an analysis of governmental processes.

  • State and Society in Early Modern Scotland
    State and Society in Early Modern Scotland

    This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland.

  • The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context
    The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context

    This book is a collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th.

  • The European Witch-Hunt
    The European Witch-Hunt

    A final chapter sets witch-hunting in the context of other episodes of modern persecution. This book is the ideal resource for students exploring the history of witch-hunting.

  • Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe
    Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

    This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures.

  • The Government of Scotland 1560-1625
    The Government of Scotland 1560-1625

    Boardman, S. I., 'Politics and the Feud in Late Medieval Scotland' (Ph.D. thesis, St Andrews, 1990). Braddick, M. J., Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England (Woodbridge, 1994). —— 'State Formation and Social Change in ...

  • Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions
    Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions

    On parliament, see gillian MacIntosh, The Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660–1685 (Edinburgh, 2007). John Patrick, 'A Union Broken? Restoration Politics in Scotland', in Jenny wormald (ed.), Scotland Revisited (London, 1991), ...

  • The supernatural in early modern Scotland
    The supernatural in early modern Scotland

    Laura Sangha, Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700 (London: P ickering & Chatto, 2012), p. 148. Darren Oldridge, The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England (Abi ngdon: Routledge, 2016), p. 104. For a broader view of the functions ...

  • The European Witch-Hunt
    The European Witch-Hunt

    Coverage of Switzerland is patchy, but see Laura Stokes, Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and ... Witchcraft is set in a wider system of popular belief by David Gentilcore, From Bishop to Witch: The System of the ...

  • The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context
    The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context

    This collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-16th century to the early 18th. It includes studies of particular...

  • Demonology and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe
    Demonology and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe

    With recent scholarship having abandoned the link between the two fields, this volume reconnects our understandings of demonology and witch-hunting.

  • Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
    Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

    ... the economies of Western Europe and China and India.14 Capital, geography and resource endowment, institutions ... The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe: Debating the Great Divergence (Basingstoke, 2020). seldom featured in ...