Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Reference Style
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction ‘Fable and Falshood’: The Historiographical Context
- Part One Early Modern Scholarship 1550-1740
- Chapter One ‘ Mighty Heroes in Learning ’: Calvinism and the Humanist Historian
- Chapter Two The ‘Honest Science’: Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience
- Part Two The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800
- Chapter Three Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention
- Chapter Four Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue
- Chapter Five ‘Signs of the Times’: The End of the Enlightenment?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Reference Style
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction ‘Fable and Falshood’: The Historiographical Context
- Part One Early Modern Scholarship 1550-1740
- Chapter One ‘ Mighty Heroes in Learning ’: Calvinism and the Humanist Historian
- Chapter Two The ‘Honest Science’: Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience
- Part Two The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800
- Chapter Three Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention
- Chapter Four Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue
- Chapter Five ‘Signs of the Times’: The End of the Enlightenment?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Virtue, Learning and the Scottish EnlightenmentIdeas of Scholarship in Early Modern History, pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020