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- W2003222139 abstract "On 8 January 1697, a third-year theology student, Thomas Aikenhead, was executed for blasphemy in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, having been indicted for claiming, inter alia, ‘that divinity or the doctrine of theologie was a rapsidie of feigned and ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the morall doctrine of philosophers, and pairtly of poeticall fictions and extravagant chimeras’ (quoted, p. 103). Generating considerable contemporary controversy and widespread printed publicity, news of Aikenhead's fate extended outside Scotland and prompted a shocked John Locke to amass an extensive collection of materials relating to the case, which subsequently formed the basis of its early nineteenth-century appearance in State Trials. Thereafter, interest in Aikenhead's execution has scarcely diminished, provoking fulminating denunciation from Lord Macaulay, alongside sundry macabre narrations and poetic portrayals. In an article published in 1992, Michael Hunter supplied an illuminating and learned account of the ideological and theological issues involved and now, more than three centuries after the execution, the case forms the subject of an entire book by Michael Graham. Claiming that Hunter's ‘unfortunate’ concern ‘more with the history of ideas than social and political factors’ meant that he ‘did not really consider the context of the case’ (p. 4), Graham insists that the Aikenhead case ‘seems ripe for the microhistorical approach pioneered by Natalie Zemon Davis and Carlo Ginzburg’ (p. 5). In making this assertion, however, Graham is presumably taking a silent cue from Hunter's own observation that ‘the materials available are almost as rich as those deployed by Carlo Ginzburg in his celebrated account of the Friuli sceptic, Menocchio’ (Michael Hunter, ‘“Aikenhead the atheist”: the context and consequences of articulate irreligion in the late seventeenth century’, in Michael Hunter and David Wootton, eds., Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment [1992], p. 222)." @default.
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- W2003222139 title "The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead: Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment" @default.
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