Jeffrey R. Smitten

Life of William Robertson (eBook, PDF)

Minister, Historian, and Principal

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and an intellectual figure at the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment. William Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to strengthen religion, not to attack it. As an historian, he helped shape eighteenth-century historiography. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, he sought to make the church fit for a polite age. And, as principal of the University of Edinburgh, he presided over a flourishing of intellectual inquiry in the midst of the Enlightenment. But despite his European fame, he was a controversial figure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748646111
• Artikelnr.: 50216782

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey R. Smitten, Professor Emeritus of English at Utah State University, has published a number of articles on William Robertson and edited Dugald Stewart's biography of Robertson. With Richard B. Sher, he co-edited Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990) and, with Sher and Nicholas Phillipson, an edition of Robertson's Works. He has also served as Executive Secretary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Bibliographical Note
Preface
1. Early Years, 1721-35
2. Education of a Minister, 1734-44
3. Parish Ministry, 1744-50
4. Ministry and History, 1750-9
5. "Innumerable Occupations", 1760-9
6. Achievement and Decline, 1770-80
7. Last Years, 1781-93