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"A man very well studyed" : new contexts for Thomas Browne /

For 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-17th century England. This volume contributes to the reevalution of Browne's involvement in his times: identifyi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murphy, Kathryn, Todd, Richard, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Notes on the Editors; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 'Between the Paws of a Sphinx': The Contexts of Thomas Browne (Kathryn Murphy); PART I BROWNE IN LEIDEN; Discipline and Praxis: Thomas Browne in Leiden (Reid Barbour); Studying Medicine in Leiden in the 1630s (Harm Beukers); PART II READING AND WRITING; '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); PART III FORM, MATTER, AND REFORM.