Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Life of William RobertsonCondition: NewEAN: 9780748646104ISBN: 9780748646104Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/30/2016Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Jeffrey R. SmittenLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Minister, Historian, and PrincipalDescription: This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and an intellectual figure at the centre of 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 eighteenth-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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Life of William Robertson
Title: The Life of William Robertson
EAN: 9780748646104
ISBN: 9780748646104
Release Date: 11/30/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Minister, Historian, and Principal
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Biography
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Life of William Robertson : Minister, Historian, and Principal
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Subject: Philosophers, Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Individual Philosophers, Religious, Commerce, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), World, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 6.2 in
Author: Jeffrey R. Smitten
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
