ABBREVIATIONS
Biblical quotations are from
AV
unless otherwise indicated. Places of publication are given only if other than London or New York.
AV
: The King James (‘Authorised’) Verison of the Bible (1611)
BHM: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Blount: Thomas Blount,
Glossographia: or a Dictionary
(1656)
Browne add.: Browne’s marginal note, added in a later edition
Browne marg.: Browne’s marginal note to the text
Browne suppl.: Browne’s supplementary note to
Hydriotaphia
or
The Garden of Cyrus
(from the list appended to most copies of a reprint of the 1st edition later in 1658). The abbreviation concerns notes never reprinted; for those that were, see ‘Browne add.’
BTB
: Sir Geoffrey Keynes,
A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
, 2nd rev. ed. (Oxford, 1968).
Bullokar: John Bullokar,
An English Expositor:… The Interpretation of the Hardest Words
(1616)
CJ
:
Cambridge Journal
Cockeram: Henry Cockeram,
The English Dictionarie
(1623)
Coleridge:
Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century
, ed. Roberta F. Brinkley (Durham, N.C., 1955), pp. 438–62
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.
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).