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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
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 contemporaries fervently believed Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly rich and dynamic ways Special attention is paid in the biography to Browne's medical vocation but also to his place within the scientific revolution New information is offered regarding his childhood in London his
European travels and medical studies the setting in which he first wrote Religio Medici his impact on readers during the English civil wars and the contemporary view of his medical practice Overall the image of Browne that emerges is far bolder and more cosmopolitan less complacent and provincial than biographers have assumed ever since Samuel Johnson doubted Browne's claim that his life up to age thirty resembled a romantic fiction filled with miracles and fables The biography has extensive material for anyone interested in the histories of religion education science and medicine seventeenth-century England and early modern philosophy and literature
European travels and medical studies the setting in which he first wrote Religio Medici his impact on readers during the English civil wars and the contemporary view of his medical practice Overall the image of Browne that emerges is far bolder and more cosmopolitan less complacent and provincial than biographers have assumed ever since Samuel Johnson doubted Browne's claim that his life up to age thirty resembled a romantic fiction filled with miracles and fables The biography has extensive material for anyone interested in the histories of religion education science and medicine seventeenth-century England and early modern philosophy and literature
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