The Letterbooks of John Evelyn
The Letterbooks of John Evelyn

Author: Douglas D.C. Chambers

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 1303

ISBN-13: 1442647868

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The Letterbooks of John Evelyn, a collection of more than eight hundred letters selected by Evelyn himself, constitutes an essential new resource for scholars of seventeenth-century England.

Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley

Author: Kristine Louise Haugen

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0674058712

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What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue”) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe’s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.