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"Church in danger" : The views of two eighteenth-century high-churchmen
(Bilkent University, 1997)This thesis deals with two British Tory Highchurchmen, namely Charles Leslie and William Jones of Nayland. The fonner has produced his works during the Iate seventeenth-century and the early eighteenth-century; whereas ... -
The emergence of schism : a study in the history of the Scottish Kirk from the national covenant to the first secession
(Bilkent University, 2014)This thesis will account for the prevalence of schism in the Scottish Church during the 18th and 19th centuries. The analysis will focus on theological developments in the 17th century during the War of the Three Kingdoms. ... -
Enlightenment and reformation in the historical writings of Thomas M'Crie
(Bilkent University, 2007)There are a limited number of studies of post-Enlightenment Scottish historiography and these are mainly concerned with the imaginative literature products of the period. However, there were many reflections of the ... -
The history of John Galt : past and present in the wake of the Enlightenment
(Bilkent University, 2003)The placing of the history of Enlightenment ideas and their implications in a wider social context has been an important characteristic of Enlightenment studies for some time. This thesis offers John Galt, the early ... -
History, presbyterianism and the confessional state : David Calderwood and his writings in the post-reformation Scotland
(Bilkent University, 2007)Thanks to recently developed methodologies in history writing, the analysis of relatively lesser known figures in the area of intellectual history, placing them in their historical context has become important in historical ... -
John Whitaker : a representative of Tory discourse in eighteenth-century Britain
(Bilkent University, 1997)ln terms of historiography, eighteenth century can be deseribed as a cmcial period in the history of Britain. However, it should be noted that, due to ideological reasons influencing histoncal research, this era of British ... -
Josiah Tucker: an eighteenth-century pamphleteer
(Bilkent University, 1997-03)This thesis deals with the ideas of Dean Josiah Tucker, especially in economic and political terms. The historical context of his thought is eighteenth-century Britain. A study of Tucker’s works reveal that he wrote ... -
Newman and the Ottoman Turks
(Bilkent University, 2001)The nineteenth-century British intellectual, John Henry Newman in his short History of the Turks in their Relation to Europe, written just before the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854, disclosed his attitude towards ... -
When beetles kept thudding : Geoffrey Keating's treatment of the foreign authors of his preface to Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn
(Bilkent University, 2014)Recent scholarship has convincingly revolutionised the interpretation of Geoffrey Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Éirinn by introducing hitherto unregarded concepts of Renaissance humanism and of Counter-Reformation thought to ...
