Author: Aberdeen (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen
Author: Aberdeen (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British MuseumBritish Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Publications of Scottish Historical and Kindred Clubs and Societies
Author: Charles Sanford TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17
Author: Glasgow (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past c. 1825-1875
Author: Richard A. MarsdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317159160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Today, Scotland's history is frequently associated with the clarion call of political nationalism. However, in the nineteenth century the influence of history on Scottish national identity was far more ambiguous. How, then, did ideas about the past shape Scottish identity in a period when union with England was all but unquestioned? The activities of the antiquary Cosmo Innes (1798-1874) help us to address this question. Innes was a prolific editor of medieval and early modern documents relating to Scotland's parliament, legal system, burghs, universities, aristocratic families and pre-Reformation church. Yet unlike scholars today, he saw that editorial role in interventionist terms. His source editions were artificial constructs that powerfully articulated his worldview and agendas: emphasising Enlightenment-inspired narratives of social progress and institutional development. At the same time they used manuscript facsimiles and images of medieval architecture to foreground a romantic concern for the texture of past lives. Innes operated within an elite associational culture which gave him access to the leading intellectuals and politicians of the day. His representations of Scottish history therefore had significant influence and were put to work as commentaries on some of the major debates which exorcised Scotland's intelligentsia across the middle decades of the century. This analysis of Innes's work with sources, set within the intellectual context of the time and against the antiquarian activities of his contemporaries, provides a window onto the ways in which the 'national past' was perceived in Scotland during the nineteenth century. This allows us to explore how historical thinkers negotiated the apparent dichotomies between Enlightenment and Romanticism, whilst at the same time enabling a re-examination of prevailing assumptions about Scotland's supposed failure to maintain a viable national consciousness in the later 1800s.