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The First Scottish Enlightenment - Rebels, Priests, and History (Hardcover)
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The First Scottish Enlightenment - Rebels, Priests, and History (Hardcover)
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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the
half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully
realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period
of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first
book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead,
it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a
'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide
phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites,
Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes
this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in
historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this
era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and
the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish
historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the
older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement
with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish
history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms
surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history,
pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as
backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a
richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars,
readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links
with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two
principal religious minorities-Episcopalians and Catholics-in the
growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major
intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of
Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.
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