Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Volume 1

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-108-07933-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General

This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770–1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626–97) to Anthony à Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aubrey, John

Walker, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Advertisement; Letters 1-110.