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

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

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Author / Creator:Allan, David, 1964-
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1993.
Description:viii, 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Enlightenment -- Scotland
Philosophy, Scottish
Enlightenment.
Historiography.
Intellectual life.
Philosophy, Scottish.
Scotland -- Intellectual life -- History.
Scotland.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1483182
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ISBN:0748604340 (cased)
0748604383 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-266) and index.
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

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