| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 382 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. William Camden; 2. Richard Verstegan; 3. Sir Robert Cotton; 4. John Selden; 5. James Ussher; 6. Sir Henry Spelman and William Somner; 7. John Weever; 8. Sir William Dugdale; 9. A Mid-century Miscellany: Thomas Browne, William Burton, and Thomas Fuller; 10. John Aubrey; 11. Phoenicia Britannica; 12. Britannia Revised; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The recovery of the various pasts of Britain - prehistoric, Roman, and Saxon - was one of the most remarkable achievements of seventeenth-century scholarship, carried out by some of the most learned men of the age. The Trophies of Time offers the first comprehensive review of the heroic phase of antiquarian studies, when history was being disengaged from fable, and the modern sense of the remote past was being securely established. - ;The Trophies of Time presents the first comprehensive survey of the English antiquarians of the seventeenth century. In Britain throughout the period there was a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antiquarians -- Great Britain.
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Antiquarians. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
| Chronological Term |
1600 - 1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parry, Graham. Trophies of time. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199234271 0199234272 (OCoLC)145387780 |
| ISBN |
9780191567155 (electronic book) |
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0191567159 (electronic book) |
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9780199234271 (paperback) |
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0199234272 (paperback) |
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9780198129622 (hardback) |
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0198129629 (hardback) |
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