Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Tom McInally -- 1. The Sixth Scottish University / Tom McInally -- 2. Development of the Colleges – Networks and Political Involvement / Tom McInally -- 3. The Education Provided / Tom McInally -- 4. The Students and their Backgrounds / Tom McInally -- 5. Catholic Missions in Scotland / Tom McInally -- 6. Heritage / Tom McInally -- Appendix: A List of Scottish Nobles Identified by their Disposition towards Mary Queen of Scots / Tom McInally -- Bibliography / Tom McInally -- Index / Tom McInally.

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For more than two centuries in which Catholicism was illegal in Scotland, the Scots Colleges abroad operated as a sixth Scottish university. During this time the university’s alumni, individually and collectively, helped to ensure the survival of Catholicism in Scotland through political and military activity as well as missionary work. Earlier scholarship has treated the colleges individually and overlooked the degree to which the university corpus formed coherent networks which, over two centuries, made significant contributions to greater European cultural and intellectual movements. Through a number of examples, a picture is given of the hitherto little recognised Scottish Catholic contribution to developments in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.