John Aubrey's Historical Scholarship
by
Kelsey Jackson Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
John Aubrey (1626-1697), antiquary, natural philosopher, and virtuoso, is best-remembered today for his Brief Lives, biographies of his contemporaries filled with luminous detail which have been mined for anecdotes by generations of scholars. However, Aubrey was much more than merely the hand behind...