Contesting Reformation: Truth-Telling, the Female Voice, and the Gendering of Political Polemic in Early Modern Scotland

Abstract

kale, n, " sense 3. The term does not appear to have possessed overtly sexual connotations, although Maidment thought it a byword for a scold, on the basis of a comment by a later seventeenth-century poet, William Cleland; Scotish Pasquils, ed. Maidment, 79. Scolding political polemic in early modern scotland • 743This essay originated as a paper given at the North American Conference on British Studies in Denver, Colorado, in 2017. Thanks to David Coast and Tom Cogswell, and especially Ann Hughes, Noah Millstone, and Rachel Weil, for helpful conversations about this material. Later versions were presented at the British History in the Seventeenth Century seminar at the Institute for Historical Research, the History seminar at the University of Nottingham, the Early Modern Britain seminar at the University of Oxford, and at Vanderbilt, Tennessee. The author particularly wishes to thank Amy Blakeway, Jamie Reid-Baxter, and Susan Wiseman for commenting on early drafts, and Peter Lake for his helpful suggestions. The essay also benefited from the constructive criticism of two anonymous referees.