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Classical Caledonia : Roman history and myth in eighteenth-century Scotland /

Focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Montgomery, Alan, (Ph. D.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Scotland: an indomitable land -- Inventing a nation -- Scottish visions of Rome -- Rediscovering Roman Scotland -- 1 Imagining a classical Caledonia: Sir Robert Sibbald's vision of Scotland's Roman past -- Education, achievements and antiquarianism -- Sibbald's vision of Roman Scotland -- Sources and methodology -- Influences on Sibbald's Roman Scotland -- Sibbald's antiquarian reputation and legacy -- 2 Walled out of humanity: Sir John Clerk and his circle 
505 8 |a Early life and Grand Tour -- Ancient Rome and modern Union -- Antiquarian and patron -- Clerk's response to Roman Scotland -- A mission to classicise Scotland -- 3 Resisting the 'Conquerors of the Universe': celebrating the Caledonian rejection of Rome -- Unconquered Caledonia in anti-Union rhetoric -- Scotland's rejection of Rome in early eighteenth-century historiography -- Caledonian indomitability in literary verse -- English attitudes towards Caledonian liberty -- 4 'Beyond the Vallum': English interpretations of Scottish history -- William Stukeley, antiquarianism and Rome 
505 8 |a Stukeley's Roman Scotland -- Stukeley's sources and influences -- John Horsley and his Britannia Romana -- Roman Scotland as portrayed in Britannia Romana -- The reputations and influence of Stukeley and Horsley -- Other English views of Roman Scotland -- 5 'Monuments and delights of the arts': rediscovering the material remains of Rome in Scotland -- Discovery and excavation -- Private collections of Roman antiquities -- Institutional collections -- Scotland's Roman inscriptions -- The artistic merits of Scotland's Roman stones -- Misunderstanding and misrepresentation of material remains 
505 8 |a Antiquarian interpretations of Scotland's Roman monuments -- 6 Reconquering the Highlands: Hanoverian interpretations of Roman Scotland -- Hanoverian 'Romans' versus Highland 'Caledonians' -- General Robert Melville and the rediscovery of Agricola's campaigns -- The genesis of William Roy's Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain -- Roy's interpretation of Scotland's Roman heritage -- Alexander Shand and his 'esteemed discoveries of the greatest importance' -- Roman Scotland as British history -- 7 The age of 'Agricolamania': early modern uses and abuses of Tacitus' Agricola 
505 8 |a The rediscovery and early reception of Tacitus' Agricola -- Agricola the hero -- Agricola the enemy -- Agricolamania -- 8 Forging a nation: the spurious histories of Charles Bertram and James Macpherson -- Charles Bertram and the De Situ Britanniae -- The De Situ Britanniae and Roman Scotland -- James Macpherson and Ossian -- Rome versus Caledonia in the poems of Ossian -- Filling the void: the motivations of Bertram and Macpherson -- 9 After Ossian: changing interpretations of Roman Scotland -- Later eighteenth-century Romanist antiquarianism -- Regional antiquarianism -- The influence of Ossian 
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