| Title: |
Ancient Britons and the antiquarian imagination: ideas from the Renaissance to the Regency |
| Number of Pages: |
175 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph
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| Abstract: |
An 'enquiry into the idea of early British antiquity as it became an object of interest among the scholars who called themselves antiquaries from the late 16th century to the first decade of the l9th.' Successive chapters treat the British antiquaries (from Leland to Borlase); the ancient authors (ie Genesis as the authority); from the Ark to the Americas (belief in The Flood, discovery of the American Indian); time, technology and the monuments (the recognition of stone tools; Stonehenge and the earthworks); relapse, romantics and stagnation (Stukeley and the Druids; the lack of proper analytical techniques; the barrow craze). Camden's Britannia (1695) showed a properly intellectual approach, but no one built on his work. (For review see Michael Hunter, Times Lit Suppl, 9-15 Feb 1990.) |
| Author: |
Stuart Piggott
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| Year of Publication: |
1989
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| ISBN: |
0 500 014701 |
| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Leland |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Late 16th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Early British (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1989
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| Source: |
BIAB
(British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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| Created Date: |
05 Dec 2008 |
