McOmish, D. (2016) Not just a lawyer: Thomas Craig and humanist Edinburgh. Innes Review, 67(2), pp. 93-106. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2016.0122)
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Abstract
Edinburgh lawyer and jurist Thomas Craig was a prominent public figure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jacobean Edinburgh. Our appreciation of Craig's cultural and intellectual legacy has usually been understood only through the prism of his well-known vocational activities in the law. Craig, however, was much more than a lawyer. He was part of a vibrant humanist culture in Edinburgh that played a significant part in wider European intellectual debates pushing the Scientific Revolution forward. Craig was an engaged and enthusiastic member of a circle of friends and family who were at the forefront of the sixteenth century's radical and transformative astronomical and mathematical debates. Evidence from a cross-section of Latin literary material reveals Craig's part in a remarkable intellectual awakening that took place in Humanist Edinburgh, and whose significance is only now beginning to be understood.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | McOmish, Dr David |
| Authors: | McOmish, D. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History |
| Journal Name: | Innes Review |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 0020-157X |
| ISSN (Online): | 1745-5219 |
| Published Online: | 01 October 2016 |
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