Author: Sir Thomas CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Argument for union from the Scottish side, written in 1605.
De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus
Author: Sir Thomas CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Argument for union from the Scottish side, written in 1605.
De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus
Author: CraigDe Unione Regnorum Britanniae
Author: Sir Thomas CraigDe Unione Regnorum Britanniæ Tractatus (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas CraigPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331134183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Excerpt from De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus It is curious that Sir Thomas Craig's De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus should have waited until after the three hundredth anniversary of its author's death before appearing in print. The manuscript of the Tractatus is in the Advocates Library; but the Catalogue throws no light on the history of the work, the description of which is very brief, and, as the Keeper tells me, apparently in Cosmo Inness hand. On the last page of the manuscript, however, the following note appears: 'Kal: Januarii MDCXC. Hunc libellum propria manu correxit et multis in Locis supplevit ex Autographo Exemplari MS. Christophori Irvini M.D. cujus autor est D. Thomas Craig Advocatus, qui ipse unioni interfuit, quod mihi Legenti patet. W. A., J. C.' Christopher Irvine was a well-known physician and antiquary in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, and his copy of Craig's work supplied the corrections and additions made by W. A., J. C. in 1690, shortly after Irvine's death. From the Roll of Advocates, Dr. Maitland Thomson has been able to identify W. A., J. C, as William Aikman of Cairnie, who was admitted Advocate in 1672 and died in 1699. The Tractatus, or the major part of it, was written by Craig in 1605. On June 11, 1604, he had been appointed one of the Scottish Commissioners to discuss in London with those of England the closer political union which James's recent accession to the English throne encouraged him to press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
De Unione Regnorum Britanniae Tractatus
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : la
Pages : 498
Book Description
A Union for Empire
Author: John RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521029889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Essays by leading historians which explore the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.
Union and Unionisms
Author: Colin KiddPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521880572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A major survey of Scotland's dominant ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians.
The British Union
Author: Paul J. McGinnisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135189353X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. Its author, David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630) was a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland and the leading Scottish critic of the anglicizing policies of James VI. The tract was written in two parts. Published in London in 1605, the first part provides a general outline of the imperative of union. The second consists of political and constitutional proposals whereby such a union might be achieved. Its publication was suppressed and it exists only in manuscript. This is the first translation of the tract. Hume's work is breathtakingly contemporary in some of the proposals that it makes; regional assemblies combined with a national parliament, and a call for efforts to inspire the Scottish and English people into a sense of common purpose. The language and ideas of the tract display characteristics of the Renaissance combined with elements that visibly anticipate the Enlightenment. The De Unione offers extraordinary insight into the European intellectual world prior to the rise of romantic nationalism in the early nineteenth century.
De Unione Regorum Britanniae Tractatus
Author: Thomas CraigScotland and England 1286–1815
Author: Roger A. MasonPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The relationship between Scotland and England has been critical in shaping the cultural and political history of Britain over many centuries, yet historians have rarely devoted much attention to it. This book recognises the importance of viewing the national histories of Scotland and England in a wider British context, and shows how rewarding this field of study is. Ranging from the consolidation of distinct Scottish and English kingdoms to the first formation of the modern British state, the essays examine a wide variety of aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations and demonstrate the value of exploring the British dimension of the national histories of both countries.