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The life of William Robertson : minister, historian and principal
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ISBN: 9780748646111 0748646116 9780748646104 0748646108 9781474404853 1474404855 Year: 2017 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The first modern biography of William Robertson, a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.

A prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to strengthen religion, not to attack it. As an 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Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words.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, Smitten gives us a more contextualised and nuanced interpretation of Robertson's motives, intentions and beliefs than we have had before.

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  • Includes new biographical information drawn from archival sources and from all Robertson's largely unpublished correspondence
  • Discusses Robertson's works, published and unpublished
  • Assesses Robertson's achievement based on fresh consideration of all facets of his career as minister, historian and principal

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Saxo Grammaticus : hierocratical conceptions and Danish hegemony in the thirteenth century
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ISBN: 1942401132 9781942401131 9781942401148 1641899417 1942401140 9781942401140 9781641899413 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kalamazoo, [Michigan] : ARC Humanities Press,

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Denmark of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries was a place of transitions, and this volume analyzes that period through the lens of the 'Gesta Danorum' of Saxo Grammaticus and other sources. The 'Gesta' defends not only hierocratic conceptions but the Danish hegemonic project in the Baltic - which was grounded in the crusade movements. Such movements are presented through complex language and imagery about a glorious past brought to bear on the projects in the thirteenth century while internal tensions strengthen the monarchic and ecclesiastical institutions.

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