Britannia

Britannia
Author: William Camden
Publisher: Thoemmes Press
Total Pages: 1264
Release: 2003
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

William Camden's Britannia (1610) was the first great text describing the British nation, its antiquities and culture. The work by Camden (1551-1623), often dubbed as the father of British history, deploys sophisticated historical material in the fashion of a geographical chorography. Organized by a set of country descriptions arranged according to the tribes of the Saxon Heptarchy, the work provided the benchmark by which later chorographers defined themselves.

Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789

Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789
Author: James E. Kelly
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004362665

Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789: ‘The World is our House’? offers new perspectives on the English Mission of the Society of Jesus. It brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to explore the Mission’s role and wider impact within the Society, as well as early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent movements within the field to decentralise the Catholic Reformation, the volume seeks to change perceptions of the English Mission as peripheral, bringing the archipelagic experience of Jesuits working in the British Isles in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the Society of Jesus.

Ancient Britons and the Antiquarian Imagination

Ancient Britons and the Antiquarian Imagination
Author: Stuart Piggott
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1989-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780500014707

A felicitous survey of the ebb and flow of ideas about the past from the Renaissance to the Regency; it is a study of changing thoughts on antiquarianism, and of the major and minor figures, and the writers who influenced them: Camden, Aubrey, Stukeley, Plot and so on.