This is the first intellectual biography of Elias Ashmole since C. H. Josten's 1967 edition. Contrary to previous scholarship, the book considers Ashmole as mainly an antiquary, a collector of above all books and manuscripts, and a lawyer. His leading role in the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum - the first public one in the British Isles - is thus reassessed. The book sheds new light onto Ashmole's library for the Museum, which was a Baconian institution with its laboratory, its books, its objects, and its pictures. "Elias Ashmole and the Uses of Antiquity" reflects Feola's adherence to the Cambridge School of Texts in Context, with a twist: by integrating new approaches to the materiality of knowledge production and circulation into a Pomigliano-Style historiography of antiquarian studies.

Elias Ashmole and the uses of antiquity

Vittoria Feola
2013

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This is the first intellectual biography of Elias Ashmole since C. H. Josten's 1967 edition. Contrary to previous scholarship, the book considers Ashmole as mainly an antiquary, a collector of above all books and manuscripts, and a lawyer. His leading role in the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum - the first public one in the British Isles - is thus reassessed. The book sheds new light onto Ashmole's library for the Museum, which was a Baconian institution with its laboratory, its books, its objects, and its pictures. "Elias Ashmole and the Uses of Antiquity" reflects Feola's adherence to the Cambridge School of Texts in Context, with a twist: by integrating new approaches to the materiality of knowledge production and circulation into a Pomigliano-Style historiography of antiquarian studies.
2013
978-2-853-67254-2
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