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...
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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: identifying his political commitments, milieu, reading and readers
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index
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Contents ; 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
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 (Siobhan Collins and Louise Denmead); Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus (Claire Preston); PART IV THE TURBULENCE OF THE TIME; '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)
PART V READING AND TRANSLATING BROWNEThe 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 (Trans. Kath; 'The Best Pillar of the Order of Sir Francis': Thomas Browne, Samuel Hartlib and Communities of Learning (Kathryn Murphy); Bibliography; Index Nominum
