Author: Robert WodrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow, Ed. from Manuscripts...
Author: Robert WodrowThe Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow
Author: Robert WodrowPublications 1-12: Wodrow, R. The correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow ... Ed. by T.M'Crie. 3 v
Author: Wodrow SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Lizanne HendersonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137313242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and redefinition of what constituted the supernatural, at the interface between folk belief and the philosophies of the learned. For the latter the eradication of such beliefs equated with progress and civilization but for others, such as the devout, witch belief was a matter of faith, such that fear and dread of witches and their craft lasted well beyond the era of the major witch-hunts. This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience, to assess the impact of enlightenment thought upon witch belief, and to understand how these beliefs operated across all levels of Scottish society.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, No. 1, 1992)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370209
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Correspondence of Robert Wodrow
Author: Robert WodrowThe Fatal Land
Author: Matthew P. DziennikPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Matthew P. Dziennik has written a compelling account of the Scottish Highland soldier and his service in Great Britain's American colonies during the French and Indian War and America's Revolutionary War. In the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century, the British state recruited more than twelve thousand soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of expanding and defending Britain's American empire, thereby transforming the most maligned region of the British Isles into a key sustainer of British imperialism. Dziennik's fascinating history corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests in terms of material security and social status. Using both English and Gaelic sources, the author re-creates the experiences and the mindset of the Highland soldier in the New World and demonstrates in the process how a periphery of the British Isles became a center of the British Empire." -- [Tiré de la jaquette].
Chinese Sociological Review
Author: The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries
Author: The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I
Author: David FergussonPublisher:
ISBN: 0198759339
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This three-volume series provides a critical examination of the history of theology in Scotland from the early middle ages to the close of the twentieth century. Volume I covers the period from the appearance of Christianity around the time of Columba to the era of Reformed Orthodoxy in the seventeenth century.