Margaret H B Sanderson. A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. East Linton, UK: Tuckwell Pres 2002 Pp xii, 244 $2695 paper. ISBN 1-86232-169-8
It is scarcely an original angle from which to approach a part but Margaret Sanderson's A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland is perhaps still best understood as a classic instance of a contemplation whose vices are the precise and necessary obverse of its virtues.
Sanderson's lifelong interest in the surviving evidence of the living conditions and experiences of early-modern scotchmans already ...