The Sixth Scottish University

The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21426-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24/3, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library / Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McInally, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements

Chapter One The Sixth Scottish University

Chapter Two Development of the Colleges - Networks and Political Involvement
The Need for Catholic Colleges
Scots Benedictines in Germany
The Execution of the Queen
Formation of the Colleges
Furthering Political Aims
A Scottish University
Distractions, Progress and Retrenchment
Toleration in Scotland

Chapter Three The Education Provided
European Movements in Education
College Buildings
Ratio Studiorum
Espousal of Enlightenment Values
The Penalties of a Catholic Education

Chapter Four The Students and their Backgrounds
The Students
Family Connections

Chapter Five Catholic Missions in Scotland
Changes over Time
The Mission in Scotland

Chapter Six Heritage

Appendix: A List of Scottish Nobles identified by their disposition towards Mary Queen of Scots
Bibliography
Archives
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.