Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on the Text

Abbreviations

Notes on the Editors

List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION

'Between the Paws of a Sphinx': The Contexts of Thomas Browne (Kathryn Murphy)

PART I BROWNE IN LEIDEN

Discipline and Praxis: Thomas Browne in Leiden (Reid Barbour)

Studying Medicine in Leiden in the 1630s (Harm Beukers)

'A Fresh Reading of Books': Some Note-Taking Practices of Thomas Browne (Antonia Moon)

PART II READING AND WRITING

Divination in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Thomas Browne's Habits of Revision (Hugh Adlington)

PART III FORM, MATTER, AND REFORM

Curious Readers and Meditative Form in Thomas Browne's Urne-Buriall (Brent Nelson)

'There is all Africa [. . .] within us': Language, Generation and Alchemy in Browne's Explication of Blackness (Siobhan Collins and Louise Denmead)

Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus (Claire Preston)

PART IV THE TURBULENCE OF THE TIME

'In the Time of the Late Civil Wars': Post-Restoration Browne and the Political Memory of Repertorium (Kevin Killeen)

Urne-Buriall and the Interregnum Royalist (Philip Major)

Thomas Browne and the Absurdities of Melancholy (Karen L. Edwards)

PART V READING AND TRANSLATING BROWNE

The Christian Physician: Thomas Browne and the Role of Religion in Medical Practice (Mary Ann Lund)

Order in the Vortex: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth as Compiler and Translator of Thomas Browne, Jean d'Espagnet, Henry More, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Antoine le Grand (Eric Achermann (Trans. Kathryn Murphy and Doris Einsiedel))

'The Best Pillar of the Order of Sir Francis': Thomas Browne, Samuel Hartlib and Communities of Learning (Kathryn Murphy)

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