Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690: Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas

[...]Jackson's sources embrace a range of innovative material: "anonymous political memoranda, sermon notebooks, manuscript legal depositions, private correspondence, commonplace-book reflections, diary entries and bardic poetry" as well as "devotional writings, moral and natural philosophy, legal theory and imaginative literature" (216, 8). [...]Scottish national identity was inextricably bound up in Scotland's ancient dynasty and monarchical tradition and the trauma of the mid-century wars and conquest only cemented loyalty to the Stuarts and the civil order that was restored with them. [...]Jackson criticizes the capacity and enthusiasm for British history to undermine the study of a uniquely Scottish political and intellectual culture; a culture that was not British and certainly not English.