Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh

by Richard B. Sher

Book Overview

Since its original publication in 1985, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in eighteenth-century Scottish history and Enlightenment studies. It depicts Hugh Blair, Alexander Carlyle, Adam Ferguson, John Home, and William Robertson as an intimate coterie that played a central role in the Scottish Enlightenment, seen here not only as an intellectual but as a cultural movement. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474407439
• ISBN13: 9781474407434
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"