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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Notices of David Laing, LL.D., Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland; Secretary to the Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh; Professor of Antiquities to the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Edinburgh; and Librarian to the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in Scotland: to which is Added a Chronological List of the Various Publications which Were Issued Under His Editorial Superintendence ...
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Dillon ... Sold, by Auction, Etc
Author: John Dillon (Antiquary.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Athenaeum
Author: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Knox-Lear
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past c. 1825-1875
Author: Richard A. MarsdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317159152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Trevor RoylePublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The bibliographer's manual of english literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382116316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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