Author: John PointerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Britannia Romana, Or Roman Antiquities in Britain,
Author: John PointerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Classical Caledonia
Author: Montgomery Alan MontgomeryPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474445667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation. Adding a new perspective on the formation of Scotland's national identity, the book documents a century-long, often heated debate regarding the extent of Roman influence north of Hadrian's Wall. By exploring the lives and writings of antiquarians, poets and Enlightenment thinkers, it aims to uncover the political, patriotic and intellectual influences which fuelled this debate. Rome versus Caledonia will cast light on a rarely discussed aspect of Scotland's historiography, one which played a vital role in establishing early modern notions of 'Scottishness' at a time when Scotland was coming to terms with radical and traumatic changes to its position within Britain and the wider world.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Society of Antiquaries (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Society of Antiquaries of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Manuscripts, Upon Papyrus, Vellum, and Paper, in Various Languages
Author: Thorpe, Thomas, firm, booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Books Concerning the Greek and Latin Classics in the Central Public Libraries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Public librariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Antiquaries
Author: Rosemary SweetPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: John Hungerford PollenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description