Author: John Lanne Buchanan
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: John Lanne Buchanan
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Category : Highland Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: David Allan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748673881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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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.

Author: John Parker Anderson
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: John Parker Anderson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Benjamin Hudson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118598326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Discarding the popular view of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to have been politically successful and culturally adaptive members of the medieval European world. Re-interprets our definition of ‘Pict’ and provides a vivid depiction of their political and military organization Offers an up-to-date overview of Pictish life within the environment of northern Britain Explains how art such as the ‘symbol stones’ are historical records as well as evidence of creative inspiration. Draws on a range of transnational and comparative scholarship to place the Picts in their European context

Author: Society of Writers to H.M. Signet. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Patrick O’Flaherty
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442649283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton's life was full of personal and professional misadventures. Patrick O'Flaherty's biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton's life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton's involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland's Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.

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Languages : en
Pages : 616

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