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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780748601110

RRP: £42.00

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 10, 1990

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Humanism in Renaissance Scotland

John Macqueen

Humanism was as central to the multiple achievements of Rennaissance Scotland as to those of France or Italy. This book studies the affect of humanist thought on literature, painting, architecture, law, philosophy, religion, science and mathematics. It picks out elements common to all and relates them to the development of Scottish life and literature. The studies are by a team of specialists and the book puts the Scottish Renaissance within a European context.

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