Author: Sir Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Translators
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A Challenge from Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie
Author: Sir Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Translators
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight
Author: John WillcockThe First Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Kelsey Jackson WilliamsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192537598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities--Episcopalians and Catholics--in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, lexicographer, ovvero, A wonder is no wonder in a wonderful subject
Author: Rita SalviPublisher:
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Category : Cromarty (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Swordsmen
Author: Roger Burrow ManningPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199261215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, Swordsmen is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe from the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these aristocrats to the chivalric revival, the military revolution and the values of neostoicism, and revived the martial ethos of the English aristocracy and reinvigorated the martial traditions of the Irish and Scots.
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars
Author: Nicholas McDowellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199278008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book explores the things which united, rather than divided, poets during the English Civil Wars, focusing less on conflicts between 'Cavaliers' and 'Roundheads' than on the friendships and shared literary enthusiasms of men of various political allegiance. Includes new readings of the early verse of John Milton and Andrew Marvell.
The Admirable Urquhart
Author: Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
a critical dictionary of english literature and british and american authors
Author: s. austin alliboneA Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660
Author: T. DemtriouPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137401494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.