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Sir Thomas Browne : a life / Reid Barbour.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 534 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191669484
  • 0191669482
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sir Thomas Browne.DDC classification:
  • 828.409 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3327 .B37 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Description based on print version record

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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