Author: John MacphersonPublisher:
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians, Their Posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots
Author: John MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians
Author: John MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians
Author: John MacphersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004251847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates’ stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Síofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, François-Emmanuël Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akça Ataç, and Robert Sparling.
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Karen O'BrienPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521773490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.
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.
Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: David AllanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748673881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "e;enlightened"e; community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.
Supplement to a Catalogue of Books, for the Year 1819
Author: William LaingAlba
Author: Edward J. CowanPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research. It examines the evolution of the idea of 'Celtic Scotland', tracing the historiography of the Gaidhealtachd through the Caledonians, the Picts and the first medieval writings in the area. It investigates such areas as Galloway as well as surveying politics, culture and the church in the context of the great medieval lordships such as those of the Isles, Argyll, Moray and Ross and demonstrates how the histories of such provinces were integrated into that of Scotland at large.
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