Kelsey Jackson Williams (University of St Andrews)

The Antiquary: John Aubrey's Historical Scholarship

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Produktbeschreibung

Kelsey Jackson Williams presents the first full account of the manuscript notebooks of the antiquary John Aubrey (1626-1697), which cover everything from the origins of Stonehenge to the evolution of folklore. He reshapes our understanding of Aubrey, and of the methodologies, ambitions, and achievements of antiquarianism across early modern Europe.

Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780198784296
• ISBN-10: 0198784295
• Artikelnr.: 47866924

Autorenporträt

Kelsey Jackson Williams is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on antiquarianism and learned culture in early modern Scotland, England, and Scandinavia. He was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil) and was a lecturer at Jesus College, University of Oxford, before taking up his British Academy fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 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
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index