Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 8344
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Boydell Press
- ISBN
- 9781783273621
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland offers the first academic study of Scottish ghost belief. It is the product of six years’ research, and draws on a range of printed and manuscript sources that had not previously attracted scholarly attention. The book spans religious, folkloric, scientific and literary contexts. It focuses on the period from 1685 to 1830, but also discusses material from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It thus provides a comprehensive analysis of how ghosts rose to a position of cultural prominence in Scotland, and the ways in which they address broader historiographical debates.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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