Nicolae Iorga’s Opinion on Early Modern Scotland
Nicolae Iorga’s Opinion on Early Modern Scotland

Summary/Abstract: This short study aims to shed some light on Nicolae Iorga’s opinions on early modern Scotland expressed in two of his works: Evoluţia ideii de libertate [The Evolution of the Idea of Freedom] and Oliver Cromwell. Conferinţă ţinută la Societatea Anglo-Română [Oliver Cromwell. Conference held at the Anglo-Romanian Society]. While he refers to Scotland in many of his universal history works (as expected, many times in A History of Anglo-Romanian Relations), in these two works he actually makes judgements on the importance of Scotland to modern Europe. After making a summary of these judgements I go on to detailing important facts about early modern Scotland, especially emphasizing it’s role in the 17th century Revolutionary events in Britain, while taking in consideration the approaches exposed in recent scholarly articles on the issue.

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