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The Sixth Scottish University: The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799
Author(s): Thomas McInally (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: November 11, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004214267
- ISBN-13: 9789004214262
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is a good story of an interesting community, shaped in and through these colleges, which played a significant part in maintaining a Catholic identity through difficult times.” – Alastair Durie, University of Stirling, UK
About the Author
Tom McInally, Ph.D. (2008) in History, is Honorary Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. His published papers are on the Scots Catholic colleges in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
