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The Historian: Fraser’s Contribution to Early Modern Highland and Scottish History and Historiography
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This chapter positions Fraser within the top tier of seventeenth century Highland and Scottish historians. While history sometimes offered respite, comfort or escape from current woes, it could also provide vital examples of good and bad practice to inform present-day public life. For Fraser, knowledge of the past was not entirely incontrovertible or immutable then but required careful archiving and regular re-presentation by scholars in order to take on its full meaning and purpose. Ultimately, this chapter shows how Fraser, a prime ‘public historian’ of his day, is best viewed on his own terms. His secular, boyhood passion for history combined with a later evangelical, pastoral wish to educate and make available, historical accounts and books for as many as possible. Both are vital towards understanding one key legacy of his: his formative influence on the founding of the Highlands’ first town library, in Inverness, in 1706.
Title: The Historian: Fraser’s Contribution to Early Modern Highland and Scottish History and Historiography
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This chapter positions Fraser within the top tier of seventeenth century Highland and Scottish historians.
While history sometimes offered respite, comfort or escape from current woes, it could also provide vital examples of good and bad practice to inform present-day public life.
For Fraser, knowledge of the past was not entirely incontrovertible or immutable then but required careful archiving and regular re-presentation by scholars in order to take on its full meaning and purpose.
Ultimately, this chapter shows how Fraser, a prime ‘public historian’ of his day, is best viewed on his own terms.
His secular, boyhood passion for history combined with a later evangelical, pastoral wish to educate and make available, historical accounts and books for as many as possible.
Both are vital towards understanding one key legacy of his: his formative influence on the founding of the Highlands’ first town library, in Inverness, in 1706.
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