A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography

A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004251847

A Companion to Enlightenment Historiography provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates’ stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. Part I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. Part II explores wider themes of national and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. Contributors are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Síofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, François-Emmanuël Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akça Ataç, and Robert Sparling.

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Karen O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521773490

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Classical Caledonia

Classical Caledonia
Author: Montgomery Alan Montgomery
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474445667

This book focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation. Adding a new perspective on the formation of Scotland's national identity, the book documents a century-long, often heated debate regarding the extent of Roman influence north of Hadrian's Wall. By exploring the lives and writings of antiquarians, poets and Enlightenment thinkers, it aims to uncover the political, patriotic and intellectual influences which fuelled this debate. Rome versus Caledonia will cast light on a rarely discussed aspect of Scotland's historiography, one which played a vital role in establishing early modern notions of 'Scottishness' at a time when Scotland was coming to terms with radical and traumatic changes to its position within Britain and the wider world.

Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment

Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: David Allan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748673881

This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "e;enlightened"e; community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.