Trophies of Time - English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century

Zusatztext a useful chronological survey of the work of the main English antiquarians of the seventeenth century Zusammenfassung The recovery of Britain's various pasts - prehistory, Roman and Saxon - was one of the most remarkable achievements of 17th-century scholarship. This work reviews the heroic phase of antiquarian studies, at a time when the modern sense of the remote past was being securely established.

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• Authors: Graham Parry, Graham (Professor of English Parry, Parry Graham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.1996
• EAN: 9780198129622
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812962-2
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, European History, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Historiography, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599