| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Library of the written word ; volume 48 |
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The handpress world ; volume 36 |
| Contents |
Introduction : Scottish lawyers in the Scottish enlightenment -- An enlightened advocate's library -- Two scholars : Areskine, Aikenhead, and their books -- Scottish legal scholars abroad -- A flourishing market for books -- Advocates' books in early eighteenth-century Scotland -- Miscellaneous books : Charles Areskine's polite learning -- The Scottish gentleman's library -- The fates of books : the Alva collections -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
In Charles Areskine's Library , Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate's private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland. By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer's library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine's lifetime |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Areskine, Charles, 1680-1763 -- Library
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| SUBJECT |
Areskine, Charles, 1680-1763 fast |
| Subject |
Law -- Scotland -- Bibliography -- History -- 18th century
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Law -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
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Intellectual life
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Law
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Law -- Bibliography
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Libraries
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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| Subject |
Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016005789 |
| ISBN |
9789004315389 |
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9004315381 |
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