Anne Skoczylas

Adjunct Professor
PhD, The University of Western Ontario, 1996

Research Interests

British and European intellectual history, particularly that of the Scottish Enlightenment. Early modern and modern British and European women's history.

Publications


Mr. Simson's Knotty Case: Presbyterian Piety and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Description

Mr Simson's Knotty Case breaks new ground, offering the first analysis of many ecclesiastical and political sources. Skoczylas shows that although Simson was in many ways a conservative man, despite his innovative pedagogy, the liberalizing effects of his cases thrust Scotland from the obscurity of Covenanting orthodoxy into the clarity of the Enlightenment

The Regulation of Academic Society in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland:: The Tribulations of Two Divinity Professors", Scottish Historical Review, LXXXIII, 2: no 216: October 2004, 171-195.

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