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Author:

Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.

Title:

Religio medici ; Hydriotaphia, or, Urne-buriall / Sir Thomas Browne ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff.

Publisher:

The New York Review of Books,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xli, 170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Physicians--Religious life--Early works to 1800.
Christian ethics--Early works to 1800.
Urn burial.

Other Authors:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
Targoff, Ramie.

Notes:

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. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-170).

Summary:

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.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

ISBN:

9781590174883 (pbk.)
1590174887 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809543653

LCCN:

2011051523

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)