Download or read book Memoir of John Aubrey F R S Embracing His Auto biographical Sketches a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits and an Account of His Works written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of John Aubrey F R S Embracing His Auto biographical Sketches a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits an Account of His Works with Extracts from His Correspondence Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries and of the Times in which He Lived written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of John Aubrey F R S Embracing His Auto biographical Sketches a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits and an Account of His Works written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Aubrey My Own Life written by Ruth Scurr and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England’s Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s execution (“On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid”); and Aubrey on antiquity (“Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunset—clear at first—but by and by crepusculum—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man.
Download or read book Memoir of John Aubry Embracing His Autobiographical Sketches etc written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of John Britton written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of John Britton F S A In Three Parts Viz Part I Personal and Literary Memoir of the Author Part II Descriptive Account of His Literary Works By T E Jones Part III Appendix Biographical Topographical Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Auto biography of John Britton A descriptive account of the literary works by T E Jones written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aubrey s Brief Lives written by John Aubrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
Download or read book A Memoir of John Aubrey written by John Britton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The antiquarian and topographer John Britton published this biography of author and antiquarian John Aubrey (1626-97) in 1845.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution The general library Additions from 1843 1852 An index of subjects An index of authors and books written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In Defiance of Time written by Angus Vine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England, from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A vibrant antiquarian culture emerged, which reached beyond scholarly and historical circles, and had a profound influence on the literature and thought of the period. Examining the influences on that development of that culture, this book argues that the origins of English antiquarianism need to be found in the methods and practices of continental (and especially Italian) humanism. It shows that, like the humanists, the early antiquaries had the essentially imaginative aim of resurrecting and recomposing the past and past societies 'in defiance of time'. The antiquaries conceived of themselves and their activities as bridging the gap between past and present, affording 'olden time' presence in this way so that it might speak to and inform present circumstances. At the heart of this book is the argument that the antiquarian project depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore-in their imagination at least-the fragments of the past, to imagine those remnants of history 'which have casually escaped the shipwrack of time' made whole once again. In Defiance of Time traces these arguments through a range of authors and material, both printed and in manuscript. Chapters advance original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden, as well as shedding light on institutions such as the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and reviewing the wide range of activities, interests, and concerns that came under the antiquarian purview. Antiquarianism is thereby shown to be integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture.
Download or read book London and Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communities and knowledge production in archaeology written by Julia Roberts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of researchers rather than the isolated work of so-called ‘instrumental’ actors. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work and the dynamic creative processes she participates in, this volume critically examines the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past. Engaging with theoretical approaches such as the sociology and geographies of knowledge and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and using examples taken from different archaeologies in Europe and North America from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century, the book caters to a wide readership, ranging from students of archaeology, anthropology, classics and science studies to the general reader.
Download or read book The Druidical Temples of the Country of Wilts written by Edward Duke and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
