Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709

A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before Culloden

AvDavid Worthington

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Reveals the Scottish Highlands as a dynamic and intellectual region in the century before CullodenChallenges the assumption that the Highlands comprised a vacuum, sealed off from the rest of Scotland and the world beyond prior to the eighteenth centurySituates Fraser within his locality, his region, country, archipelago and continent in a way unparalleled by any other contemporary exampleExamines the self-presentation and self-curation of an energetic, curious, mobile Gaelic-speaking manThis book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634 1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands. David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands' strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire. He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality and resilience of the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralisation, depopulation and under-development that then occurred.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399501279

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David Worthington is Professor of Scottish History and the Head of the Centre for History at UHI, Scotland. He is the author of British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2012) and Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (Brill: Leiden, 2003). He is also editor of The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017) and British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Brill: Leiden, 2009).

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An impressively researched and lively biographical study of polymath and polyglot Reverend James Fraser, Gaelic minister of Kirkhill: traveller, historian, linguist, scientist. This book provides a critically important picture of the integration of the later seventeenth-century cultural and intellectual world of the Highlands with that of early modern Europe.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introducing the ‘Curious Cleric’: James Fraser and the Early Modern Scottish Highlands Part One (1634-60) Acquiring Knowledge: Fraser’s Training as an Early Modern Scottish Highland Scholar 1 The Student: The Curious Mind of James Fraser2 The Traveller: Fraser’s ‘Grand Tour’ in Early Modern Europe3 The Linguist: Fraser and a Multilingual Scottish HighlandsPart Two (1660-1709) Communicating Knowledge: Fraser’s Adult Life as an Early Modern Scottish Highland Scholar4 The Scientist: ‘Natural Philosophy’ in Fraser’s Scholarly Networks and Life-Writing5 The Minister: Fraser’s Influence on Kirkhill Parish and Community6 The Historian: Fraser’s Contribution to Early Modern Highland and Scottish History and HistoriographyConclusion: Memory, Biography and Scottish Highland History Before CullodenBibliographyIndex

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