Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the
extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help
of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of
Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings
within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he
lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua,
Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his
contemporaries fervently believed, Browne influenced the
intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England
in singularly rich and dynamic ways. Special attention is paid in
the biography to Browne's medical vocation but also to his place
within the scientific revolution. New information is offered
regarding his childhood in London, his European travels and medical
studies, the setting in which he first wrote Religio Medici, his
impact on readers during the English civil wars, and the
contemporary view of his medical practice. Overall, the image of
Browne that emerges is far bolder and more cosmopolitan, less
complacent and provincial, than biographers have assumed ever since
Samuel Johnson doubted Browne's claim that his life up to age
thirty resembled a romantic fiction filled with miracles and
fables. The biography has extensive material for anyone interested
in the histories of religion, education, science and medicine,
seventeenth-century England, and early modern philosophy and
literature.
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