Nine centuries of man : manhood and masculinities in Scottish history Introduction: interrogating men in Scottish history . Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan Part 1: models. Be wise in thy governing: managing emotion and controlling masculinity in early modern Scottish poetry . Sarah Dunnigan. Reformed masculinity: ministers fathers and male heads of households 1560 1660 . Janay Nugent . The importance and impossibility of manhood: polite and libertine masculinities in the urban eighteenth century . Rosalind Carr . The taming of Highland masculinity: inter personal violence and shifting codes of manhood c.1760 1840 . Lynn Abrams Part 2: representations. Making a manly impression: the image of kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages Cynthia Neville . Contrasting kingly and knightly masculinities in Barbours Bruce Sergi Mainer . Negotiating independence: manliness and begging letters in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Scotland Katie Barclay . A wartime family romance: narratives of masculinity and intimacy during World War Two Lynn Abrams. Part 3: lived experiences. Social control and masculinity in early modern Scotland: expectations and behaviour in a lowland parish Harriet Cornell A polite and commercial people Masculinity and economic violence in Scotland 1700 1760 Tawny Paul ; Music hall mashers and the unco guid: competing masculinities in Victorian Glasgow .Tanya Cheadle . That class of men: effeminacy sodomy and failed masculinities in inter and post war Scotland. Jeff Meek ; Speaking to the hard men masculinities violence and youth gangs in Glasgow c. 1965 75 . Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser