Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment : ideas of scholarship in early modern history /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1993] |
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Summary: | Part of the widespread reassessment of the foundations of the modern world in Europe, arguing that in Scotland, humanism and Calvinism made the moral function of scholarship a major debate, which shaped the course of the Enlightenment there. Distributed in the US by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Physical Description: | viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-266) and index. |
ISBN: | 0748604340 0748604383 |