
The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89
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Hugh Ouston has taught history in schools in Lothian, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Perthshire. His interest in late seventeenth century Scotland began with postgraduate research in the 1970s and he completed a D. Phil. in 2020.
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1. 'Th'established hierarchy to secure': politics, ideology and the patronage of learning
2. 'He knew his grandfather's hand': the patronage of the medical profession
3. 'The Natural History. of that kingdom': Sir Robert Sibbald and the description of Scotland
4. 'A firm and stable Rule, which will ply no obliquity': the legal profession and the Stuart state
5. 'A whole Man and his whole Age': Sir George Mackenzie and the advancement of learning
6. 'All dew incurradgement': patronage and learning in the Church and universities
7. 'The centre of virtue. in this kingdome': the development of Edinburgh as a learned institution
8. 'What was most remarkable a doing by the learned': the Scottish Virtuoso tradition and the Republic of Letters
Conclusion: 'Intellectual alchemy?'
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