INTRODUCTION 'Fable and Falshood' The Historiographical Context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on Reference Style vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. INTRODUCTION 'Fable and Falshood' The Historiographical Context 1
6. PART ONE Early Modern Scholarship ISS0-1740
7. CHAPTER ONE 'Mighty Heroes in Learning' Calvinism and the Humanist Historian 27
8. CHAPTER TWO The 'Honest Science' Reconstructing Virtue in an Historical Audience 79
9. PART TWO The Enlightenment in Scotland 1740-1800
10. CHAPTER THREE Enlightened Identity and the Rhetoric of Intention 145
11. CHAPTER FOUR Historians and Orators: The Rise and Fall of Scholarly Virtue 185
12. CHAPTER FIVE 'Signs of the Times' The End of the Enlightenment? 231
13. Bibliography 244
14. Index 267