The Auction Catalogue of the Library of Hugh Goodyear, English Reformed Minister at Leiden

The Auction Catalogue of the Library of Hugh Goodyear, English Reformed Minister at Leiden PDF Author: J D Bangs
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004609814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640

English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640 PDF Author: Polly Ha
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804759871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Drawing on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, this book challenges the standard narrative that English presbyterianism was successfully extinguished from the late sixteenth century until its prominent public resurgence during the English Civil War.

"A Man Very Well Studyed"

Author: Katherine Murphy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004171738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts. Drawing on new research into his reading, readers, biography, manuscripts, and politics, a new picture of Browne and his writing emerges, clarifying his relationship to seventeenth-century English and European culture.

The Theater of Nature

The Theater of Nature PDF Author: Ann Blair
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088750X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience,'' fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne PDF Author: Reid Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199679886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549

Book Description
Reid Barbour brings the historical evidence of Browne's life together for the first time, allowing readers to contextualise his most celebrated works.

Antiquarian Book Monthly

Antiquarian Book Monthly PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners

Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners PDF Author: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 936

Book Description
"Controversies in politics and religion, customs of family life and society, obligations of labor and chances to play, questions of free will, democracy, the separation of church and state, religious toleration, treatment of Indians---these form the matter of this book." -- Publisher's description.

Quaerendo

Quaerendo PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 682

Book Description
A quarterly journal from the low countries devoted to manuscripts and printed books.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Gibbes-Gospatric

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Gibbes-Gospatric PDF Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Histoires Du Livre

Histoires Du Livre PDF Author: Hans Erich Bödeker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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