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The Life of William Robertson
- Minister, Historian, and Principal
Engelsk Hardback
The Life of William Robertson
- Minister, Historian, and Principal
Engelsk Hardback

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A prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his better-known contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment not to attack religion but to strengthen it. As a historian, he helped shape 18th-century historiography. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, he sought to make the church fit for a polite age. And, as principal of the University of Edinburgh, he presided over a flourishing of intellectual inquiry in the midst of the Enlightenment. But despite his European fame, he was a controversial figure.

Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words. By foregrounding Robertson''s religious outlook, he offers a more contextualized and nuanced interpretation of his motives, intentions, as well as his beliefs than we have had before.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780748646104
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748646108
Udg. Dato:
30 nov 2016
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
243mm
Højde:
179mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 nov 2016
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