Charles Areskine's Library

Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment
X, 255 Pp. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31537-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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 in Scotland.

By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer’s library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine’s lifetime.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baston, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: Scottish Lawyers in the Scottish Enlightenment

1 An Enlightened Advocate’s Library

2 Two Scholars: Areskine, Aikenhead, and their Books

3 Scottish Legal Scholars Abroad

4 A Flourishing Market for Books

5 Advocates’ Books in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland

6 “Miscellaneous” Books: Charles Areskine’s Polite Learning

7 The Scottish Gentleman’s Library

8 The Fates of Books: The Alva Collections

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Baston, Ph.D. (2012), University of Edinburgh, has published on Scottish legal history and is a bibliographer whose publications include (with Ernest Metzger) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (Traditio Iuris Romani, 2012).