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Antiquaries - The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Antiquaries - The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own
past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history
and high politics.
Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a
distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in
their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding
and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at
preserving and investigating records and physical remains in
England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid
foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology
and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole.
Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many
antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at
synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At
their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley,
antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields
ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval
architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great
historical enterprise.
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