The Trophies of Time
English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 October 2007
- ISBN 9780199234271
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 216x137x29 mm
- Weight 507 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 persistent curiosity about the origins of the nation and its institutions, inspired initially by the publication in 1586 of Camden's Britannia . A remarkable campaign of scholarship developed, which attempted to imagine the vanished societies that had once flourished there. What could be known of prehistoric Britain from its monuments and language? Could the lay-out of Roman Britain be recovered? Was it possible somehow to retrieve the language, religion, and laws of Saxon England? The answers to these questions often had a bearing on contemporary issues of church and state and also enabled citizens to gain a new insight into the character and identity of their nation. Many of the most learned men of the age addressed themselves to antiquarian enquiry and this book presents lively and fascinating portraits of Camden, Cotton, Selden, Spelman, Ussher, Dugdale, Aubrey, and many other lesser-known scholars.
Review from previous edition many virtues: a clear, accessible style, summaries of the content and significance of often rather inaccessible Latin works, and a real sense of both the academic and wider political importance of superficially recondite research.
