A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792

A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792
Title A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792 PDF eBook
Author Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher BRILL
Total Pages 539
Release 2022-03-16
Genre History
ISBN 900450379X

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This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.

The Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587-8-1627)

The Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587-8-1627)
Title The Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587-8-1627) PDF eBook
Author William Poole
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages 312
Release 2024-08-13
Genre History
ISBN 1843847248

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Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters. The Dundonian physician Peter Goldman, one of an immigrant family of merchants, was the first Scot to take a medical degree from Leiden; he then undertook research in Oxford, London, and Paris, before resettling in Dundee. An important figure in contemporary Scottish literary culture, he maintained a wide correspondence with significant intellectual figures and influenced two landmark Scottish publishing projects: the Delitiae poetarum Scotorum (1637) and the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654). However, his major literary achievement was his Latin poetry, which establishes him as a unique voice of his time. His longest and most prominent work is an elegy on the deaths of four of his brothers, strikingly narrated in the voice of their lamenting mother. This book reconstructs and provides a study of Goldman's life, career and writing. It also offers a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters, with accompanying commentary. Appendices provide an edited list of his remarkable library and a transcript of his testament.

A Companion to Scottish Literature

A Companion to Scottish Literature
Title A Companion to Scottish Literature PDF eBook
Author Gerard Carruthers
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages 692
Release 2023-12-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1119651441

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A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.

Relics, dreams, voyages

Relics, dreams, voyages
Title Relics, dreams, voyages PDF eBook
Author Peter Davidson
Publisher Manchester University Press
Total Pages 409
Release 2024-07-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526169339

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Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar and beautiful texts, things and events, into a cartography of the secret and strange patterns of baroque cultures worldwide. The visual arts are examined across a wide temporal and geographical span, and many subversive iconographies are decoded: at the French and English courts, in remote Scotland, in Nagasaki, in Valladolid. This books offers a new, extraordinary cultural geography of the baroque world, opening doors to many rich and strange cultural artefacts, from 'China to Peru.'

Catalogue of Stirling's and Glasgow Library

Catalogue of Stirling's and Glasgow Library
Title Catalogue of Stirling's and Glasgow Library PDF eBook
Author Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Stirling's Library
Publisher
Total Pages 642
Release 1888
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Catalogue of the Valuable, Topographical, Historical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late John Caley...

Catalogue of the Valuable, Topographical, Historical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late John Caley...
Title Catalogue of the Valuable, Topographical, Historical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late John Caley... PDF eBook
Author John Caley
Publisher
Total Pages 206
Release 1834
Genre Books
ISBN

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Total Pages 718
Release 1974
Genre Union catalogs
ISBN

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