"A man very well studyed" : new contexts for Thomas Browne / / edited by Kathryn Murphy and Richard Todd.
For many years, scholarship on Thomas Browne (1605-1682) saw him as tangential to his period’s thought and writing: an obscure and quaint stylist, detached from the turbulence of mid-seventeenth century England. This volume contributes to the current reevalution of Browne’s involvement in his times:...
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| Superior document: | Intersections, v. 10 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 10. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 314 pages :; illustrations) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Materials / R.K. Todd and K. Murphy
- ‘Between The Paws Of A Sphinx’: The Contexts Of Thomas Browne / Kathryn Murphy
- Discipline And Praxis: Thomas Browne In Leiden / Reid Barbour
- Studying Medicine In Leiden In The 1630's / Harm Beukers
- ‘A Fresh Reading Of Books’: Some Note-Taking Practices Of Thomas Browne / Antonia Moon
- Divination In Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Thomas Browne’s Habits Of Revision / Hugh Adlington
- Curious Readers And Meditative Form In Thomas Browne’s Urne-Buriall / Brent Nelson
- ‘There Is All Africa [. . .] Within Us’: Language, Generation And Alchemy In Browne’s Explication Of Blackness / Siobhán Collins and Louise Denmead
- Of Cyder And Sallets: The Hortulan Saints And The Garden Of Cyrus / Claire Preston
- ‘In The Time Of The Late Civil Wars’: Post-Restoration Browne And The Political Memory Of Repertorium / Kevin Killeen
- Urne-Buriall And The Interregnum Royalist / Philip Major
- Thomas Browne And The Absurdities Of Melancholy / Karen L. Edwards
- The Christian Physician: Thomas Browne And The Role Of Religion In Medical Practice / Mary Ann Lund
- Order In The Vortex: Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth As Compiler And Translator Of Thomas Browne, Jean D’espagnet, Henry More, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz And Antoine Le Grand / Eric Achermann
- ‘The Best Pillar Of The Order Of Sir Francis’: Thomas Browne, Samuel Hartlib And Communities Of Learning / Kathryn Murphy
- Bibliography / R.K. Todd and K. Murphy
- Index Nominum / R.K. Todd and K. Murphy.