History of Scholarship

History of Scholarship
Author: Christopher Ligota
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191515833

The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religious history. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy; and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.

British Consciousness and Identity

British Consciousness and Identity
Author: Brendan Bradshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521893619

The historical resonances of the concept of 'Britain' for the communities of the Atlantic Archipelago in the early modern period are explored here in terms of the ideological demands made upon it. Various and competing concepts of Britishness are examined, from the Henrician legislation which united Wales with England and which created the kingdom of Ireland, to the Act of Union of the realms of England and Scotland. The chequered history of the consciousness of Britain as a polity which embraced the united kingdoms is discussed in relation to the distinctive national identities of the constituent countries, and the question of the impact of 'Britain' on English policy-making under the Tudor, Stuart and the first Hanoverian monarchs is addressed. The puzzling resistance of the Irish to assimilation in contrast to the docility of the Welsh and - eventually - of the Scots is also explored.

Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641

Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641
Author: Hiram Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

This collection of essays arising out of a seminar organized by the Folger Library, Washington, provides an in-depth analysis of the period's writings. It looks at the work of Spenser and other colonial writers but also at the work of more neglected Irish writers, attempting to discern what they thought about their country and its predicament.

European Universities in the Age of Reformation and Counter Reformation

European Universities in the Age of Reformation and Counter Reformation
Author: Helga Robinson-Hammerstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Discussions have suggested the following: far from losing its significance with the break-up of the universal church and the universal empire, the European university really came into its own in the early modern period (the age of confessional strife).