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The Oxford Francis Bacon VIII - The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh and other works of the 1620s (Hardcover, New)
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The Oxford Francis Bacon VIII - The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh and other works of the 1620s (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Oxford Francis Bacon
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This volume belongs to the critical edition of the complete works
of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an edition that presents the works in
broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles
of modern textual scholarship. This volume contains critical
editions of five varied works Bacon composed during the 1620s. The
most significant and substantial of these five works is his
biography of Henry VII (The historie of the raigne of King Henry
the seventh) but the volume testifies as well to Bacon's continuing
robust allegiance to his youthful vaunt that all knowledge was his
province, for it also includes his sketch for a biography of Henry
VIII, An advertisement touching an holy war (a thoughtful debate
over the prospect of holy war in his own time), Apophthegmes (a
lively collection of witty anecdotes, classical to early modern),
and his select verse translations from the psalms. In each case an
authoritative text has been established based upon fresh collation
of the relevant manuscripts and of multiple copies of the
seventeenth-century editions, and subjected to a thorough
bibliographical analysis of the treatment of Bacon's texts in the
early modern printing-house. The Introductions discuss the occasion
and context for each work, evaluate his creative transmutation of
his sources, and weigh their contemporary reception. A
comprehensive commentary identifies and parses Bacon's use of
source material, from his refinement of published literary and
historical sources and contemporary MSS to the political white
papers composed while he served as counsellor to King James. An
extensive glossary is integrated into this commentary. An Appendix
provides full bibliographical descriptions of all of the textual
witnesses, manuscript and printed edition.
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