The Major Works (English Library)
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E: Norman J. Endicott (ed.), The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne (1967)
ELH: Journal of English Literary History
ELN: English Language Notes
ELR: English Literary Renaissance
Elyot: Sir Thomas Elyot, Dictionary (1538)
ES: English Studies
ESA: English Studies in Africa
G1: W. A. Greenhill (ed.), ‘Religio Medici’, ‘A Letter to a Friend’, ‘Christian Morals’ (1881)
G2: W. A. Greenhill (ed.), ‘Hydriotaphia’ and ‘The Garden of Cyrus’ (1896)
H: Frank L. Huntley (ed.), ‘Hydriotaphia’ and ‘The Garden of Cyrus’ (Northbrook, Ill., 1966)
HLQ: Huntington Library Quarterly
HTR: Harvard Theological Review
JEGP: Journal of English and German Philology
JHI: Journal of the History of Ideas
JHM: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
K: Sir Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (1964), 4 vols.
Keck: (as below p. 552)
M: L. C. Martin (ed.), ‘Religio Medici’ and Other Works (Oxford, 1964)
MLR: Modern Language Review
MP: Modern Philology
MSS.: The reading of one or more of the extant manuscripts
MSS. marg.: Marginal note to the text provided by one or more of the extant manuscripts
N&Q: Notes and Queries
OED: The Oxford English Dictionary
P: The Pembroke College manuscript of Religio Medici (ed. Jean-Jacques Denonain, Une Version primitive de Religio Medici, Paris, 1958)
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association
PQ: Philological Quarterly
R: R. H. A. Robbins (ed.), ‘Religio Medici’, ‘Hydriotaphia’ and ‘The Garden of Cyrus’ (Oxford, 1972)
Ralegh: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World (1614), ed. C. A. Patrides (1971)
RES: Review of English Studies
Ross: (as below, p. 552)
SCR: S. C. Roberts (as below, p. 556)
SEL: Studies in English Literature
Septuagint: The Greek version of the Old Testament (3rd cent. B.C.?)
SJ: Dr Johnson’s (?) notes to Christian Morals: see above, p. 11, note 3
SP: Studies in Philology
TLS: Times Literary Supplement
UA: The unauthorised edition of Religio Medici (1642)
UTQ: University of Toronto Quarterly
Vulgate: St Jerome’s Latin version of the Bible (c. 384–404)
W: Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works (1835–36), 4 vols.
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
For a general guide to studies of Browne and his contemporaries, consult the detailed entries in Douglas Bush (below, §20), pp. 461–668. The revised first volume of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. George Watson (1974), is exhaustive but severely noncommittal. See further below, p. 547.
Annual bibliographies include: the English Association’s The Year’s Work in English Studies (1919 ff.); the Modern Humanities Research Association’s Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920 ff.); PMLA (1922 ff.); SP (1922 ff.); and SEL (1961 ff.).
BACKGROUND STUDIES
§1. Allen, Don Cameron: Doubt’s Boundless Sea: Scepticism and Faith in the Renaissance (Baltimore, 1964). With a chapter on ‘atheism and atheists in the Renaissance’. Cf. §16.
§2. Allen, Don Cameron: The Legend of Noah: Renaissance Rationalism in Art, Science and Letters (Urbana, 1949).
§3. Allen, Phyllis: ‘Medical Education in Seventeenth Century England’, JHM, I (1946), 115–43.
§4. Allers, Rudolf: ‘Microcosmus: From Anaximandros to Paracelsus’, Traditio, II (1944), 319–407.
§5. Ashley, Maurice: The Golden Century: Europe 1598–1715 (1969).
§6. Ashley, Maurice: Life in Stuart England (1964). Cf. §55.
§7. Ashton, Trevor (ed.): Crisis in Europe 1560–1660 (1965).
§8. Aylmer, G.E.: The Struggle for the Constitution 1603–1689 (1963; American edn: A Short History of Seventeenth-Century England).
§9. Baker, Herschel: The Image of Man: A Study of the Idea of Human Dignity in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (1961; former title: The Dignity of Man, Cambridge, Mass., 1947), and The Wars of Truth: Studies in the Decay of Christian Humanism in the Earlier Seventeenth Century (1952).
§10. Baldwin, Thomas W.: William Shakespeare’s Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (Urbana, 1944), 4 vols. Cf. §27.
§11. Bamborough, J. B.: The Little World of Man (1952). On Renaissance psychological theory.
§12. Bennett, H. S.: English Books and Readers 1603 to 1640 (Cambridge, 1970).
§13. Bishop. W. J.: ‘Some Medical Bibliophiles and their Libraries’, JHM, III (1948), 229–62. Describes Browne’s collection, pp. 255–8. Cf. §§181, 203.
§14. Blau, Joseph L.: The Christian Interpretation of the Cabala in the Renaissance (1944). Cf. W. J. Bouwsma, ‘Postel and the Significance of Renaissance Cabalism’, as below (§ 73), Ch. XI; also §§108, 109.
§15. Bolgar, R. R.: The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries (Cambridge, 1954).
§16. Bredvold, Louis I: The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden (Ann Arbor, 1934). On the traditions of scepticism; with some remarks on Browne, pp. 40–46. Cf. §1.
§17. Briggs, K. M.: Pale Hecate’s Team (1962). On witchcraft during the English Renaissance. Cf. §88.
§18. Burns, Norman T.: Christian Mortalism from Tyndale to Milton (Cambridge, Mass., 1972). Cf. §§261, 272.
§19. Burtt, Edwin A.: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, rev. ed. (1932). Cf. §70.
§20. Bush, Douglas: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 2nd rev. ed. (Oxford, 1962). The best single survey of Browne’s age.
§21. Bush, Douglas: The Renaissance and English Humanism (Toronto, 1939).
§22. Bush, Douglas: ‘Two Roads to Truth: Science and Religion in the Early Seventeenth Century’, ELH, VIII (1941), 81–102. Cf. §§69, 127.
§23. Butler, Christopher: Number Symbolism (1970).
§24. Carré, Meyrick H.: ‘The New Philosophy’, in his Phases of Thought in England (Oxford, 1949), Ch. VII. A survey of seventeenth-century philosophy.
§25. Cassirer, Ernst: The Platonic Renaissance in England, trans. J. P. Pettegrove (1953). Cf. §98.
§26. Castiglioni, Arturo: The Renaissance of Medicine in Italy (Baltimore, 1934), and ‘The Medical School at Padua and the Renaissance of Medicine’, Annals of Medical History, n.s., VII (1935), 214–17.
§27. Charlton, Kenneth: Education in Renaissance England (1965). A comprehensive survey. Cf. §§10, 36, 67, 84.
§28. Clark, Sir George: The Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1947).
§29. Clements, Robert J.: Picta Poesis: Literary and Humanistic Theory in Renaissance Emblem Books (Rome, 1960).
§30. Cochrane, Eric (ed.): The Late Italian Renaissance 1525–1630 (1970).
§31. Colie, Rosalie L.: Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox (Princeton, 1966).
§32. Collinson, Patrick: The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967). Cf. §52.
§33. Craig, Hardin: The Enchanted Glass: The Renaissance Mind in English Literature (1936), and its sequel, New Lamps for Old (1960). Studies in the cross-currents of ideas.
§34. Crombie, A.C.: Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science, A.D. 400–1650, new ed. (1957). Cf. §50.
§35. Cruickshank, John (ed.): French Literature and its Background, Vol. II: The Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1969). Cf. §§80, 119.
§36. Curtis, Mark H.: Oxford and Cambridge in Transition, 1558–1642 (Oxford, 1959). Cf. §27.
§37. Davies, R. Trevor: The Golden Century of Spain 1501–1621 (1937), and Spain in Decline 1621–1700 (1957).
§38. Debus, G. Allen: The English Paracelsians (1965).
§39. Debus, G. Allen (ed.): Medicine in 17th Century England (Berkeley, 1974)
. With 15 comprehensive essays; on Browne see esp. pp. 116–17, 197–200, 343–5.
§40. Debus, G. Allen (ed.): Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance (1972), 2 vols. with 38 wide-ranging essays.
§41. Delany, Paul: British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century (1969). Cf. §113.
§42.Dieckmann, Liselotte: Hieroglyphics: The History of a Literary Symbol (St Louis, 1970). With a section on Browne, pp. 109–15.
§43. Doran, Madeleine: ‘On Elizabethan “Credulity”, with some questions concerning the use of the marvelous in literature’, JHI, I (1940), 151–76.
§44. Farmer, David L.: Britain and the Stuarts (1965).
§45. Finney, Gretchen L.: Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580–1650 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1962).
§46. Friedrich, Carl J.: The Age of the Baroque 1610–1660 (1952).
§47. Garin, Eugenio: Italian Humanism, trans. Peter Munz (1965).
§48. Geyl, Peter: The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century (1936–64), 2 vols.
§49. Grierson, Sir Herbert: Cross-Currents in English Literature of the Seventeenth Century (1929).
§50. Hall, A. Rupert: From Galileo to Newton, 1630–1720 (1963). Cf. §34.
§51. Hall, Marie Boas: The Scientific Renaissance 1450–1630 (1962). Cf. §34.
§52. Haller, William: The Rise of Puritanism (1938), and Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution (1955). Cf. 532.
§53. Harris, Victor: All Coherence Gone (Chicago, 1949). On the belief in nature’s decay.
§54. Harrison, Charles T.: ‘The Ancient Atomists and English Literature of the Seventeenth Century’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, XLV (1934), 1–79.
§55. Hart, Roger: English Life in the Seventeenth Century (1970). Cf. §6.
§56. Heninger, S.K., Jr: Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics (San Marino, Calif., 1974).
§57. Heninger, S.K., Jr: ‘Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences’, HLQ, XXXII (1969), 101–33, 249–70.
§58. Hill, Christopher: The Century of Revolution 1603–1714 (Edinburgh, 1961).
§59. Hoeninger, F.D. and J.F.M.: The Growth of Natural History in Stuart England from Gerard to the Royal Society (‘Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization’, 1969).
§60. Hoopes, Robert: Right Reason in the English Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass., 1962).
§61. Houghton, .Walter E.: ‘The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century’, JHI, III (1942), 51–73, 190–219.
§62. Howell, Wilbur S.: Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500–1700 (Princeton, 1956).
§63. Hunter, William B., Jr: ‘The Seventeenth Century Doctrine of Plastic Nature’, HTR, XLIII (1950), 197–213.
§64. Johnson, Francis R.: Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England (Baltimore, 1937); also, ‘Astronomical Text-books in the Sixteenth Century’, as below (§92), I, 285–302. Cf. §74.
§65. Jones, Richard F.: Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in Seventeenth-Century England, 2nd ed. (1961).
§66. Jordan, Wilbur Κ.: The Development of Religious Toleration in England (1932–40), 4 vols. With a discussion of Browne, II, 446–53.
§67. Kearney, Hugh: Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and Society in Pre-Industrial Britain (1970). Cf.§27.
§68. Knights, L.C.: Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson (1937).
§69. Kocher, Paul H.: Science and Religion in Elizabethan England (San Marino, Calif., 1953). Cf. §127.
§70. Koyré, Alexandre: From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Baltimore, 1957). Cf. 519.
§71. Kristeller, Paul O.: Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters (Rome, 1956); also Renaissance Thought: I (1961) and II (1965).
§72. Kristeller, Paul O.: The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino, trans. Virginia Conant (1943). Cf. §§56, 111, 135.
§73. Kristeller, Paul O., and Philip P. Weiner (eds.): Renaissance Essays (1968).
§74. Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 1957), Cf. 564.
§75. Lewis, C.S.: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 1964). Cf. §133.
§76. Lockyer, Roger: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471–1714 (1964).
§77. Lovejoy, Arthur O.: The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge, Mass., 1936). Cf. §94.
§78. McAdoo, H.R.: The Spirit of Anglicanism: A Survey of Anglican Theological Method in the Seventeenth Century (1965). Cf. 583.
§79. Macpherson, C.B.: The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford, 1962). Cf. §82.
§80. Maland, David: Culture and Society in Seventeenth Century France (1970). Cf. §114.
§81. Mazzeo, Joseph A.: Renaissance and Revolution: Backgrounds to Seventeenth-Century English Literature (1965).
§82. Mintz, Samuel I.: The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-Century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (Cambridge, 1962).
§83. More, Paul E., and Frank L. Cross (eds.): Anglicanism: The Thought and Practice of the Church of England (1935). Cf. §78.
§84. Mulder, John R.: The Temple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth-Century England (1969). Cf. 527.
585. Nicolson, Marjorie H.: Science and Imagination (Ithaca, N.Y., 1956).
§86. Nicolson, Marjorie H.: The Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Effect of the ‘New Science’ upon Seventeenth-Century Poetry, rev. ed. (1960).
§87. Nicolson, Marjorie H.: ‘The Early Stages of Cartesianism in England’, SP, XXVI (1929), 356–74.
§88. Notestein, Wallace: A History of Witchcraft in England (Washington, 1911). Cf. §17.
§89. O’Connell, Marvin R.: The Counter-Reformation, 1560–1610 (1974).
§90. Ogg, David: Europe in the Seventeenth Century, 8th ed. (1961).
§91. Ornstein, Martha: The Rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century, 3rd ed. (Chicago, 1938).
§92. Pagel, Walter: ‘The Reaction to Aristotle in Seventeenth-Century Biological Thought’, in Science, Medicine and History, ed. E. Ashworth Underwood (1953), I, 489–509.
§93. Patrides, C.A.: The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian View of History (1972).
§94. Patrides, C.A.: ‘Renaissance Thought on the Celestial Hierarchy’, JHI, XX (1959), 155–66, and ‘Hierarchy and Order’, in Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Philip P. Wiener (1973), II, 434–49. Cf. §77.
§95. Patrides, C.A.: Milton and the Christian Tradition (Oxford, 1966). On the period’s theological horizons.
§96. Patrides, C.A.: ‘Renaissance and Modern Thought on the Last Things: A Study in Changing Conceptions’, HTR, LI (1958), 169–85; and ‘Renaissance and Modern Views on Hell’, HTR, LVII (1964), 217–36.
§97. Patrides, C.A.: ‘Renaissance Estimates of the Year of Creation’, HLQ, XXVI (1963), 315–22.
§98. Patrides C.A. (ed.): The Cambridge Platonists (1969). Cf. §25.
§99. Pennington, D.H.: Seventeenth Century Europe (1970).
§100. Powell, Chilton L.: English Domestic Relations 1487–1653 (1917).
§101. Quinones, Ricardo J.: The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Cambridge, Mass., 1972).
§102. Raven, Charles E.: English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray (Cambridge 1947).
§103. Raven, Charles E.: Natural Religion and Christian Theology, 1st Series (Cambridge, 1953).
§104. Rhys, Hedley H. (ed.): Seventeenth-Century Science and the Arts (Princeton, 1961).
§105. Robb, Nesca: Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance (1935). Cf. §72.
§106. Roots, Ivan: The Great Rebellion 1642–1660 (1966).
§107. Schmitt, Charles B.: ‘Perennial Philosophy: From Agostino Steuco to Leibniz’, JHL, XXVII (1966), 505–32.
,§108. Scholem, Gershom G.: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, rev. ed. (1946), and On the Kabbalab and its Symbolism, trans. R. Manheim (1965). The best studies of c
abbalistic thought. Cf. next entry.
§109. Secret, François: Les Kabbalistes chrétiens de la Renaissance (Paris, 1964). Cf. previous entry.
§110. Sells, Arthur L.: The Paradise of Travellers: The Italian Influence on Englishmen in the Seventeenth Century (1964). Cf. §114.
§111. Shumaker, Wayne: The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance (Berkeley, 1972).
§112. Smith, A.G.R.: Science and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeentb Centuries (1972).
§113. Stauffer, Donald A.: English Biography before 1700 (Cambridge, Mass., 1930). Cf. §41.
§114. Stoye, John W.: English Travellers Abroad, 1604–1667: Their Influence in English Society and Politics (1952). Cf. §110.
§115. Svendsen, Kester: Milton and Science (Cambridge, Mass., 1956). Cf. §§34, 51.
§116. Temkin, Owsei: Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy (Ithaca, N.Y., 1973).
§117. Thorndike, Lynn: A History of Magic and Experimental Science (1941–1958), Vols. V-VIII. On the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
§118. Trapp, J.B. (ed.): Background to the English Renaissance (1974). Six lectures.
§119. Treasure, G.R.R.: Seventeenth Century France (1966). Cf. §80.
§120. Trinkaus, Charles: In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanistic Thought (1970), 2 vols.
§121. Tulloch, John: Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, rev. ed. (Edinburgh, 1874), 2 vols. Still a reliable account.
§122. Walker, D.P.: The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment (1964).
§123. Walker, D.P.: ‘Orpheus the Theologian and Renaissance Platonism’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XVI (1953), 100–20; repr. in his The Ancient Theology (1972), Ch. I.
§124. Warnke, Frank J.: Versions of Baroque: European Literature in the 17th Century (New Haven, 1972).
§125. Weidhorn, Manfred: Dreams in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (The Hague, 1970).
§126. West, Robert H.: Milton and the Angels (Athens, Ga., 1955). On the period’s angelology.
§127. Westfall, Richard S.: Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (New Haven, 1958), Cf. 569.