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This book is the companion to Public Sculpture of Edinburgh, volume
1, 'The Old Town and South Edinburgh', extending the coverage to
the First New Town and its environs, and beyond that to the former
independent burgh of Leith. It provides a comprehensive and
detailed account of the entire spectrum of public sculptures to be
found in these parts of the city, including free-standing
commemorative monuments, architectural carvings, and contemporary
site-specific interventions. Based on extensive new research, the
text is structured as a catalogue raisonne, with each entry
comprising a detailed description of the work, an account of how it
came to be commissioned, and an analysis of its cultural
significance. There are also separate appendices dealing with
important works that have been lost or destroyed, minor works and
sculptural coats of arms. The study of public sculpture is now
recognised as offering a range of new insights into the development
of the urban realm. Those insights are brought together here to
provide a comprehensive resource for historians, architects, urban
planners and conservators, and a narrative history that will be of
interest to all who care about Edinburgh, and wish to celebrate its
status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This is the twentieth volume in the Public Sculpture of Britain
series, the ambitious collaboration between Liverpool University
Press and the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association that will
eventually document the outdoor sculptural heritage of the whole of
the UK. Public sculpture is defined in this context as any work of
three-dimensional art located in an unregulated public space,
typically consisting of free-standing commemorative monuments,
architectural carvings and statues attached to buildings, and
contemporary site-specific interventions. A subject that was until
recently overlooked as a matter of marginal relevance to the
history of art, public sculpture has been shown through the
Liverpool University Press series to offer a range of important
insights into the built environment, enriching our understanding of
architecture and city planning, and raising many challenging issues
relating to the development of society as a whole. This is nowhere
better illustrated than in Edinburgh, where the richness of its
history as a capital city, and the dramatic power of its urban
topography, have combined to create a uniquely fertile breeding
ground for public sculpture of every kind. With the coverage
divided between two companion volumes, the study begins
appropriately with the historic Old Town, and the various suburbs
extending from it to the south.
Among medieval studies, one of the areas of debate is whether
consequences arose from dialectic or from Prior Analytic
commentaries and the place of metaphysics in this development. The
following work investigates this development using modal
conditional semantics and consequences. The work suggests
conditional syllogistics led to the rise of consequences from both
dialectic and developments in conditional expressions. Due to
Aquinas' emphasis upon metaphysics and his use of conditional
expressions, Aquinas is an exceptional source for a scientific
investigation. The following work illustrates Aquinas' modal
conditional semantic metaphysics and its relation to consequences
within its Parisian context. The focus is specifically on the
metaphysics of modal semantics in hypothetical modal conditional
enunciations and syllogistics using the topic from definition. This
scientific investigation contributes to the history of logic, the
relationship between consequences, dialectic, metaphysics, and
modal conditional expressions, and contemporary analytic research
in conditional logic, language, and semantic theories in
intensional logics.
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