Richard Sher

Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment

The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh

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Produktbeschreibung

Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in 18th-century Scottish history and Enlightenment studies. This collective biography portrays the 'Moderate Iiterati' as zealous activists for the cause in which they believed, ranging from support for a Scots militia to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 217mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781474407434
• ISBN-10: 1474407439
• Artikelnr.: 43501018

Autorenporträt

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History in the Federated History Department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (2006) and co-editor of The Glasgow Enlightenment (1995), Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (1993), and Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Notes on the Illustrations
Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Makin of the Moderate Regime
1. Students, Ministers, Volunteers
2. The Moderate Revolution
3. The Institutionalization of Moderate Authority
Part II: Modernism and the Scottish Enlightenment
4. The Moderate Spirit and Style
5. The Teaching and Preachng of Moderate Morality
6. For the Glory of Scotland
7. The Tolerant Conservatives
8. The Passing of the Moderate Enlightenment
Bibliography
Index.