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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Jackson Williams, Kelsey (1986-....)
Titre(s) : The antiquary [Texte imprimé] : John Aubrey's historical scholarship / Kelsey Jackson Williams
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-191 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Oxford English monographs
Lien à la collection : Oxford English monographs
Comprend : 1. Stonehenge and the druids: antiquarian controversy in Restoration England ; 2.
Monumenta Britannica: ancient traces in the British landscape ; 3. The old Roman
fashion: architecture and its histories ; 4. Writing lives: Aubrey, Anthony Wood,
and antiquarian biography ; 5. Ovid in the West Country: the ancient origins of folk
custom ; 6. A new philology: toponyms and comparative linguistics in Aubrey's late
works.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
John Aubrey (1626-1697), antiquary, natural philosopher, and virtuoso, is best-remembered
today for his 'Brief Lives', biographies of his contemporaries filled with luminous
detail which have been mined for anecdotes by generations of scholars. However, Aubrey
was much more than merely the hand behind an invaluable source of biographical material;
he was also the author of thousands of pages of manuscript notebooks covering everything
from the origins of Stonehenge to the evolution of folklore. Kelsey Jackson Williams
explores these manuscripts in full for the first time and in doing so illuminates
the intricacies of Aubrey's investigations into Britain's past. 'The Antiquary' is
both a major new study of an important early modern writer and a significant intervention
in the developing historiography of antiquarianism. It discusses the key aspects of
Aubrey's work in a series of linked chapters on archaeology, architecture, biography,
folklore, and philology, concluding with a revisionist interpretation of Aubrey's
antiquarian writings. While covering a wide variety of scholarly territory, it remains
rooted in the common thread of Aubrey's own intellectual development and the continual
interaction between his texts as he studied, discovered, revised, and rewrote them
across four decades. Its conclusions not only substantially reshape our understanding
of Aubrey and his works, but also provide new understandings of the methodologies,
ambitions, and achievements of antiquarianism across early modern Europe
Sujet(s) : Aubrey, John (1627-1697) -- Notes, esquisses, etc.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198784296. - ISBN 0198784295 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45160388n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45160388
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