The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History

ISBN-13: 9780198809692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 368 str.

Kelsey Jackson-Williams

Opis

This book argues that the 'first' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative-Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics-and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.

Recenzje

First Scottish Enlightenment has many virtues...Overall, this a tremendous contribution to the history of Scottish scholarship and Scottish intellectual history generally.

O autorze

Kelsey Jackson Williams is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Stirling and his research focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and material histories of Scotland, England, and continental Northern Europe. He was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and held posts at Jesus College, University of Oxford, and the University of St Andrews before taking up his present lectureship.