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Scotland and the Rise of Civic Culture, 1550–1650
Author(s) -
Williamson Arthur
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00192.x
Subject(s) - monarchy , period (music) , identity (music) , order (exchange) , civic culture , aesthetics , sociology , history , law , political science , psychology , economic history , philosophy , politics , economics , democracy , finance
Scottish people during this period did not seek to discover their “identity,” which we, as post‐Romantics in a period of reaction, instinctively would expect today. Instead, many of them developed highly articulated notions of civic society and sought to realize them in a new and radical Britain. This projected Britain would provide a model for world renewal. Further, civic society was imagined as intensely anti‐imperial. It constituted the direct opposite of the Hapsburg‐papal universal monarchy. At the same time it was not an order to be imposed on some putatively inferior “other,” but a universal (and soteriological) transformation involving everyone.