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- catalog abstract ""Virtue, Learning and The Scottish Enlightenment is the latest contribution to a growing reassessment of the moral and intellectual foundations of modern Europe, challenging head-on a number of deeply-rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and the Enlightenment. It argues that humanism and Calvinism placed a discussion of the essentially moral function of scholarship at the very centre of historical debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn strongly influenced the emergence of an Enlightenment led by the Scottish literati. Introducing the works of more than two hundred scholars and thinkers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, David Allan explores important - though usually neglected - aspects of the country's intellectual discourse. This pivotal book is both an essential reference tool and a thought-provoking reappraisal of the origins of modern Scotland."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b5576248.
- catalog coverage "Scotland Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""Virtue, Learning and The Scottish Enlightenment is the latest contribution to a growing reassessment of the moral and intellectual foundations of modern Europe, challenging head-on a number of deeply-rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and the Enlightenment. It argues that humanism and Calvinism placed a discussion of the essentially moral function of scholarship at the very centre of historical debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn strongly influenced the emergence of an Enlightenment led by the Scottish literati. Introducing the works of more than two hundred scholars and thinkers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, David Allan explores important - though usually neglected - aspects of the country's intellectual discourse. This pivotal book is both an essential reference tool and a thought-provoking reappraisal of the origins of modern Scotland."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-266) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: 'Fable and Falshood': The Historiographical Context -- pt. 1. Early Modern Scholarship 1550-1740. Ch. 1. 'Mighty Heroes in Learning': Calvinism and the Humanist Historian. Ch. 2. "The 'Honest Science': Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience -- pt. 2. The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800. Ch. 3. Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention. Ch. 4. Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue. Ch. 5. 'Signs of the Times': The End of the Enlightenment?".
- catalog extent "viii, 276 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment.".
- catalog identifier "0748604340 (cased)".
- catalog identifier "0748604383 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,".
- catalog relation "Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment.".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Scotland".
- catalog spatial "Scotland.".
- catalog subject "DA812 .A43 1993".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment Scotland.".
- catalog subject "Historiography Scotland History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Scottish 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: 'Fable and Falshood': The Historiographical Context -- pt. 1. Early Modern Scholarship 1550-1740. Ch. 1. 'Mighty Heroes in Learning': Calvinism and the Humanist Historian. Ch. 2. "The 'Honest Science': Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience -- pt. 2. The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800. Ch. 3. Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention. Ch. 4. Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue. Ch. 5. 'Signs of the Times': The End of the Enlightenment?".
- catalog title "Virtue, learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment : ideas of scholarship in early modern history / David Allan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".