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In the Name of Freedom: the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 2020 Rhetoric and History - Scottish Historical Review: Volume 101, Issue 3 (Paperback)
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In the Name of Freedom: the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 2020 Rhetoric and History - Scottish Historical Review: Volume 101, Issue 3 (Paperback)
Series: Scottish Historical Review Monographs
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In 1977 Grant Simpson published a seminal article in the Scottish
Historical Review: which asked if 'anything conceivably new can be
said about a document so well known in Scotland as the Declaration
of Arbroath?' The contributors to this volume demonstrate that
there can. The text of the Declaration, written in 1320, followed
closely an Irish prototype and was structured in the fashion that
was expected at the papal court, where the letter was sent. It drew
heavily on political ideologies and legal concepts with which
English and continental intellectuals were familiar. And it was
brought to papal attention through diplomatic means and practices
which were commonly understood across Europe. Although the
Declaration disappeared from political discourse in the centuries
which immediately followed its dispatch, its rediscovery from the
later seventeenth century is traced in hitherto unprecedented
depth. Its relevance was not just to Scotland. The question of
whether it influenced the American Declaration of Independence has
oft been mooted but is here closely investigated. Today the
Declaration remains a controversial document, inspirational to
many, misappropriated by others, and even feared by some.Sharper
focus on context; new textual analysis; unsurpassed investigation
of the afterlife of the declaration in the seventeenth, eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
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