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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Antiquaries"”.
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
In the sixteenth century, self-styled ‘antiquaries’ began to uncover, examine, and circulate manuscript sources from the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period of English history that had predated the Norman Conquest of 1066. These manuscripts had formerly been held in abbeys and religious houses across the country. …
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The Collecting Habits on an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers, FRS, FRA (1711-1784)
… time through his affiliation with the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society. This dimension of Rogers’ activity has remained underexplored in existing scholarship. His extensive and unpublished correspondence with leading collectors and scholars of the period reveals the dynamic …
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Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)
… published in 1655. It was arranged by the antiquaries William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth from compiled transcriptions of monastic foundation charters, and was illustrated in the early 1650s by the engraver Daniel King with over fifty full-page plates of dissolved monastic churches and …
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Sensation, Sacred Landscapes, and the Sense of the Past in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1760
This thesis explores how sensation could be central to the articulation of the sacrality of the landscape for British Protestants in the first half of the eighteenth century. It examines the relationship between attitudes to the visible past and the history of emotions, the senses, and experience …