Charles Areskine's library : : lawyers and their books at the dawn of the Scottish enlightenment / / by Karen Baston.
In Charles Areskine's Library , Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate's private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the Written Word
48. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Scottish Lawyers in the Scottish Enlightenment
- An Enlightened Advocate's Library
- Two Scholars: Areskine, Aikenhead, and Their Books
- Scottish Legal Scholars Abroad
- A Flourishing Market for Books
- Advocates' Books in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
- "Miscellaneous" Books: Charles Areskine's Polite Learning
- The Scottish Gentleman's Library
- The Fates of Books: The Alva Collections
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.