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Mairi Cowan

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Mairi Cowan is a historian of the late medieval and early modern world, with specializations in the social and religious histories of Scotland and New France. She has written about the connections between social discipline and the Catholic Reformation in Scotland; tensions of international theology, national politics, and local tradition in twelfth-century Glasgow; experiences of childhood in the Renaissance court of James IV, King of Scots; colonial efforts to “Frenchify” Indigenous people in seventeenth-century Québec; and Jesuit missionaries’ beliefs about demons in Indigenous societies of North America. Her most recent book, The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada, is a microhistory of bewitchment ...more

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	The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada (Volume 5) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada) 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing History: A Guide for Canadian Students by William Kelleher Storey, Mairi Cowan (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875 by Robert Englebert (Editor), Andrew N. Wegmann (Editor), Brett Rushforth (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History, 4) by Janay Nugent (Editor), Elizabeth Ewan (Editor), Anne Frater (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350–1560 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender in Scotland, 1200-1800 by Janay Nugent (Editor), Cathryn Spence (Editor), Mairi Cowan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars