The Collected Works of William Robertson

ISBN-13: 9780415137430 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 5160 str.

William Robertson; Richard Sher;Sher

Opis

Alongside Gibbon and Hume, William Robertson was the most popular British historian of the 18th century. A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Robertson was both leader of the Moderate Party in the Church of Scotland and principal of the University of Edinburgh. A prominent debater, Robertson's importance has emerged again in the light of original research 200 years after his death in 1793. This 12-volume set incorporates Robertson's final corrections and revisions for each of the four histories and the published sermon. Besides the major works, the set includes miscellaneous writings and speeches by Robertson and several biographical and critical works about him taken from scarce pamphlets and periodicals. With new introductions, including one on Robertson as historian, and the other providing a biographical and bibliographical commentary, this set should be useful to scholars of historiography and the social, ecclesiastical and intellectual history of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Recenzje

'Given [the] revived interest in Robertson, a new twelve-volume edition of [his] collected works is indeed to be welcomed ... This superb collection ... is, in the best sense, a labor of love ... Sher and Smitten have invested considerable care in ensuring that the collection includes complete and accurate texts of each of Robertson's works, and have expended great effort in locating the original texts, which are often rare ... The collection is further enriched by the presence of new explanatory texts and critical essays ... The work as a whole is well planned and thoroughly satisying ... the editors and publisher are to be congratulated for producing an authoritative edition ... a beautiful edition, attractively bound and printed ... the collection represents a worthy tribute to the life and work of a great historian.' - Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK