Religio medici and Hydriotaphia, or, Urne-buriall

✍ Scribed by Sir Thomas Browne

• Book ID: 100047126
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 273 KB
• Edition: 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1590175034

✦ Synopsis

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting.

Here this baroque master's two most enduring and admired works, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall , appear in a new edition that has been annotated and introduced by the distinguished scholars Ramie Targoff and Stephen Greenblatt (author of the best-selling Will in the World and the National Book Award-winning The Swerve). In Religio Medici Browne mulls over the relation between his medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, pondering the respective claims of science and religion, questions that are still very much alive today. The discovery of an ancient burial site...