Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

by Emerson, Roger L.

• ISBN13: 9780748625963
• ISBN10: 0748625968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-29
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This book considers the ways in which 388 men secured posts in the Scottish universities 1690-1806, from the purge following the Revolution of 1688 to the end of Henry Dundas's political career. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This study considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews. The improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served is considered and its relation to the Scottish Enlightenment is explored.Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. In considering the origins and support for the Enlightenment, the roles of patrons should be considered. This work is based on much archival study and adds substantially to what is known about the Scottish professoriat during the period.For some its arguments will be of importance; for others it will serve as a useful reference work on the universities, one which adds much to what is known about them.

Table of Contents

Preliminaries
Introduction	p. 3
Glasgow University
Glasgow University to 1701	p. 21
Principal Stirling's Regime: Family and Politics, 1701-1725	p. 43
Glasgow under the Campbells, 1725-1742	p. 84
Squadrone Glasgow and the Return of the Duke of Argyll, 1742-1761	p. 107
The Age of Bute and the Moderates	p. 150
Glasgow University in the Age of Dundas	p. 178
Edinburgh University
Edinburgh University to 1704	p. 211
Edinburgh Appointments in the Faculty of Divinity	p. 231
Chairs of Interest to Lawyers	p. 252
Surgical and Medical Chairs	p. 273
The Arts Chairs	p. 325
St. Andrews University
The Arts Chairs, 1690-c. 1715	p. 367
St. Mary's College and Other Appointments, 1713-1747	p. 406
The Untold Story	p. 441
Thomas Tullideph's St Andrews, 1747-1777	p. 459
The Dundas Era at St Andrews, 1780-1806	p. 491
Conclusions
Summaries and Results	p. 523
Bibliography	p. 555
Estimated Values of the Chairs in the Scottish Universities for the 1690s, 1725, 1760, 1795	p. 591
Average Total Incomes of the Professors from All Sources by Faculty	p. 615
Index of Names	p. 619
Index of Subjects	p. 633
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