The aim of this paper is to isolate personal passages in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and put forward some hypotheses as to their function in the general design of the work. As a devotional text, Religio Medici would seem an unlikely site for life-writing. However, when placed in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions and Montaigne's Essais, its autobiographical asides acquire a further level of significance within the general framework of Browne's idea of human consciousness
"Sir Thomas Browne's Purple Patches: The Creative Cosmography of the Self in Religio Medici"
Paolo Bugliani
2019-01-01
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to isolate personal passages in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and put forward some hypotheses as to their function in the general design of the work. As a devotional text, Religio Medici would seem an unlikely site for life-writing. However, when placed in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions and Montaigne's Essais, its autobiographical asides acquire a further level of significance within the general framework of Browne's idea of human consciousnessFile in questo prodotto:
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