Richard 'Dutch' Thomson, C. 1569-1613 - The Life and Letters of a Renaissance Scholar

Richard 'Dutch' Thomson, best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired by his contemporaries for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson, and edits his surviving correspondence, seventy-eight letters.

About the author

Paul Botley, Ph.D. (2000), University of Cambridge, teaches Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. He has published monographs on Latin translation (2004) and Greek studies (2010) in Renaissance Europe, and co-edited the letters of Joseph Scaliger (8 vols, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Botley
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2016
• EAN: 9789004308244
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30824-4
• No. of pages: 404
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works