Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment : ideas of scholarship in early modern history /

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Author / Creator: Allan, David, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • Note on Reference Style
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction 'Fable and Falshood' the Historiographical Context
  • Notes
  • Part 1. Early Modern Scholarship 1550-1740
  • Chapter 1. 'Mighty Heroes in Learning' Calvinism and the Humanist Historian
  • Chapter 2. The 'Honest Science' Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience
  • Part 2. the Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800
  • Chapter 3. Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention
  • Chapter 4. Historians and Orators the Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue
  • Chapter 5. 'signs of the Times': The End of the Enlightenment
  • Bibliography
  • Index