Charles Areskine’s library : lawyers and their books at the dawn of the Scottish enlightenment

In Charles Areskine's Library, Karen Baston Uses A Detailed Study Of An Eighteenth-century Scottish Advocate's Private Book Collection To Explore Key Themes In The Scottish Enlightenment Including Securlarisation, Modernisation, Internationalisation, And The Development Of Legal Literature In Scotland. By Exploring A Surviving Manuscript Dated 1731 That Lists A Scottish Lawyer's Library, Karen Baston Demonstrates That The Books Charles Areskine Owned, Used In Practice, And Read For Pleasure Embedded Him In The Intellectual Culture That Expanded In Early Eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine And His Fellow Advocates Emerged As Scholarly And Sociable Gentlemen Who Led Their Nation. Lawyers Were Integral To And Integrated With The Scottish Society That Allowed The Scottish Enlightenment To Take Root And Flourish Within Areskine's Lifetime--unedited Summary From Book Jacket. Introduction : Scottish Lawyers In The Scottish Enlightenment -- An Enlightened Advocate's Library -- Two Scholars : Areskine, Aikenhead, And Their Books -- Scottish Legal Scholars Abroad -- A Flourishing Market For Books -- Advocates' Books In Early Eighteenth-century Scotland -- Miscellaneous Books : Charles Areskine's Polite Learning -- The Scottish Gentleman's Library -- The Fates Of Books : The Alva Collections -- Conclusion. By Karen Baston. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 217-244) And Index.