A Protestant Purgatory? Visions of an Intermediate State in Eighteenth-century Scotland
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A Protestant Purgatory: Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779
25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D. Clark advanced the then contentious claim that until the end of the long 18th century England remained what he styled a ‘confessional state’.(1) Missing from the wave of prior work by social and political historians of 18th-century England, Clark argued, was a close attent...
متن کاملA Protestant Purgatory: Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779
25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D. Clark advanced the then contentious claim that until the end of the long 18th century England remained what he styled a ‘confessional state’.(1) Missing from the wave of prior work by social and political historians of 18th-century England, Clark argued, was a close attent...
متن کاملVirtuous discourse: sensibility and community in late eighteenth-century Scotland
Reappraisals of the history and historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment abound these days. Yet however much is produced, authors continue to find new and interesting things to say. John Dwyer has certainly proved this in his excellent, fairly short study of the Scottish moralists. Dwyer, thankfully, has not taken the high road to philosophy but has investigated the output of the eighteenth...
متن کاملSmallpox inoculation and demographic trends in eighteenth-century Scotland.
The impact of inoculation on levels of mortality has always been a contentious issue. Was the practice of deliberately infecting patients with a mild case of smallpox so as to produce immunity to further attacks the first of a triumphal succession of techniques by which medical men conquered infectious diseases, or a dangerous procedure of little or no value? Historically, opinions have swung b...
متن کاملEighteenth-century chemistry as an investigative enterprise
14 articles, the most reflective is that of an outsider, Jane Lewis of the London School of Economics, who in an overview of the literature suggests, somewhat at odds with the other contributors, that "it is a mistake to see women as passive recipients [of obstetrical care] or as victims of these changes". Essays in the volume edited by Valerie Fildes continue this celebratory note of women's e...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Scottish Historical Review
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0036-9241,1750-0222
DOI: 10.3366/shr.2018.0363