Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709

Name: Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
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A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before Culloden

By: David Worthington

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Paperback | 11 March 2025

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248 Pages

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This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands.
David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands' strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire. He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality and resilience of the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralisation, depopulation and under-development that then occurred.

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An impressively researched and lively biographical study of polymath and polyglot Reverend James Fraser, Gaelic minister of Kirkhill: traveller, historian, linguist, scientist. This book provides a critically important picture of the integration of the later seventeenth-century cultural and intellectual world of the Highlands with that of early modern Europe.

--Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph

Out of the seventeenth-century Highlands, often thought a place apart, steps a determinedly cosmopolitan individual. David Worthington's study of James Fraser - Gael, linguist, scientist, historian, continent-wide traveller and locally rooted parish minister - is a masterly portrayal of a well lived and productive Highland life.

--James Hunter, University of the Highlands and Islands

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