Not just a lawyer: Thomas Craig and humanist Edinburgh
Edinburgh lawyer and jurist Thomas Craig was a prominent public figure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jacobean Edinburgh. Our appreciation of Craig's cultural and intellectual legacy has usually been understood only through the prism of his well-known vocational activities in the law. Cr...
| Autres titres: | Biography and James VI's Scotland |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University Press
[2016]
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| Dans: |
The Innes review
Année: 2016, Volume: 67, Numéro: 2, Pages: 93-106 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | CD Christianisme et culture CF Christianisme et science KAG Réforme; humanisme; Renaissance KBF Îles britanniques KDD Église protestante |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
scientific networks
B Edinburgh B Mathematics B Astronomy B history of science B Humanist education B Latin literary culture |
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| Résumé: | Edinburgh lawyer and jurist Thomas Craig was a prominent public figure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jacobean Edinburgh. Our appreciation of Craig's cultural and intellectual legacy has usually been understood only through the prism of his well-known vocational activities in the law. Craig, however, was much more than a lawyer. He was part of a vibrant humanist culture in Edinburgh that played a significant part in wider European intellectual debates pushing the Scientific Revolution forward. Craig was an engaged and enthusiastic member of a circle of friends and family who were at the forefront of the sixteenth century's radical and transformative astronomical and mathematical debates. Evidence from a cross-section of Latin literary material reveals Craig's part in a remarkable intellectual awakening that took place in Humanist Edinburgh, and whose significance is only now beginning to be understood. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2016.0122 |