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).

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.

• 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

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).

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.

• 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

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).

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.

• 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