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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781425103321

Autore

McInally Tom

Titolo

The sixth Scottish university [[electronic resource] ] : the Scots colleges abroad, 1575 to 1799 year : 2012 / / by Tom McInally

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012

ISBN

1-283-33471-2

9786613334718

90-04-21462-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

History of science and medicine library ; ; 24

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; ; 3

Disciplina

378.411

Soggetti

Scots - Education (Higher) - Europe - History

Catholic universities and colleges - Europe - History

Church and state - Scotland - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Tom McInally -- 1. The Sixth Scottish University / Tom McInally -- 2. Development of the Colleges – Networks and Political Involvement / Tom McInally -- 3. The Education Provided / Tom McInally -- 4. The Students and their Backgrounds / Tom McInally -- 5. Catholic Missions in Scotland / Tom McInally -- 6. Heritage / Tom McInally -- Appendix: A List of Scottish Nobles Identified by their Disposition towards Mary Queen of Scots / Tom McInally -- Bibliography / Tom McInally -- Index / Tom McInally.

Sommario/riassunto

For more than two centuries in which Catholicism was illegal in Scotland, the Scots Colleges abroad operated as a sixth Scottish university. During this time the university’s alumni, individually and collectively, helped to ensure the survival of Catholicism in Scotland through political and military activity as well as missionary work. Earlier scholarship has treated the colleges individually and overlooked the degree to which the university corpus formed coherent networks which, over two centuries, made significant contributions to greater European cultural and intellectual movements. Through a number of examples, a picture is given of the hitherto little recognised Scottish Catholic



contribution to developments in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.