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02182aam a2200397I 4500 001 FF6D247827E011E28D42D0E26AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20121106010327 008 120910s2012 nyua b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2011051523 020 $a 9781590174883 (pbk.) 020 $a 1590174887 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)809543653 040 $a BKL $c BKL $d SILO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d SILO 050 00 $a PR3327 $b .A73 2012 082 00 $a 828/.409 $2 23 100 1 $a Browne, Thomas, $c Sir, $d 1605-1682. 245 1 $a Religio medici ; $b Hydriotaphia, or, Urne-buriall / $c Sir Thomas Browne ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff. 246 30 $a Hydriotaphia 246 30 $a Urne-buriall 260 $a New York, NY : $b The New York Review of Books, $c c2012. 300 $a xli, 170 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 500 $a Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-170). 520 $a Here this baroque master's two most enduring and admired works. In Religio Medici Browne mulls over the relation between his medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, pondering the respective claims of science and religion, questions that are still very much alive today. The discovery of an ancient burial site in an English field prompted Browne to write Urne-Buriall, which is both an early anthropological examination of different practices of interment and a profound meditation on mortality. 650 0 $a English prose literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700. 650 0 $a Physicians $x Religious life $v Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Christian ethics $v Early works to 1800. 650 0 $a Urn burial. 700 1 $a Greenblatt, Stephen, $d 1943- 700 1 $a Targoff, Ramie. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017015652.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF6D247827E011E28D42D0E26AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search