This book deals with an area of Scotland's intellectual history which previously has been neglected. The alumni of the Scots Colleges abroad gave a distinctive Catholic voice to the Enlightenment with major achievements in Arts, Architecture and scientific experimentation.

Tom McInally, Ph.D. (2008) in History, is Honorary Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. His published papers are on the Scots Catholic colleges in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.