Sir Thomas Browne : a life / Reid Barbour.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 534 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191669484
- 0191669482
- Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
- Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
- Authors, English -- 17th century -- Biography
- Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
- Écrivains anglais -- 17e siècle -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Authors, English
- 1600-1699
- 828.409 23
- PR3327 .B37 2013eb
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua, Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his contemporariesfervently believed, Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly r.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
London, 1605-1616 -- Winchester and Ireland, 1616-1623 -- Oxford, 1623-1631 -- Montpellier, 1631-1632 -- Padua, 1632-1633 -- Leiden, 1633-1634 -- Halifax, 1634-1637 -- Norwich, 1637-1649 -- Norwich 1649-1660 -- Norwich, 1660-1671 -- Norwich, 1672-1682
English.
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650