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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts—names, dates, family, important works—and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever. As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle. But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a “poor” scholar “immerst…in fabrication of his owne fortunes,” or to read that Shakespeare, the son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to “make a speech” while slaughtering a calf. At times straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside the point—that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives. Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that Aubrey’s work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and biography reimagined for modern readers.

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Publié par	Mint Editions
Date de parution	07 décembre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781513273761
Langue	English
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Brief Lives
John Aubrey

Brief Lives was first published in the 17th century.
This edition published by Mint Editions 2021.
ISBN 9781513268767 | E-ISBN 9781513273761
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C ONTENTS P REFACE V OLUME I S YNOPSIS OF THE “L IVES ” I NTRODUCTION L IVES: A BBOT TO H YDE V OLUME II L IVES: I NGELBERT T O Y ORK A PPENDIX I : A UBREY’S N OTES OF A NTIQUITIES A PPENDIX II : A UBREY’S C OMEDY T HE C OUNTREY R EVELL

P REFACE
The rules laid down for this edition have been fully stated in the Introduction. It need only be said here that these have been scrupulously followed.
I may take this opportunity of saying that the text gives Aubrey’s quotations, English and Latin alike, in the form in which they are found in his M SS . They are plainly cited from memory, not from book: they frequently do not scan, and at times do not even construe. A few are incorrect cementings of odd half lines.
The necessary excisions have not been numerous. They suggest two reflections. The turbulence attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh seems to have made his name in the next age the centre of aggregation of quite a number of coarse stories. In the same way, Aubrey is generally nasty when he mentions the noble house of Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and the allied family of Sydney. There may be personal pique in this, for Aubrey thinks he had a narrow escape from assassination by a Herbert (i. 48); perhaps also there may be the after-glow of a Wiltshire “feud” (i. 316).
The Index gives all references to persons mentioned in the text, except to a few found only in pedigrees, or otherwise quite insignificant; also to all places of which anything distinctive is said.
Andrew Clark
January 4, 1898

VOLUME I

S YNOPSIS OF THE “L IVES ”
In the text the Lives have been given in alphabetical order of the names. This was necessary, not only on account of their number—more than 400—but because Aubrey, in compiling them, followed more than one principle of selection, writing, first, lives of authors, then, lives of mathematicians, but bringing in also lives of statesmen, soldiers, people of fashion, and personal friends.
The following synopsis of the lives may serve to show (i) the heads under which they naturally fall, (ii) their chronological sequence.
The mark † indicates the year or approximate year of death; ‡ denotes a life which Aubrey said he would write, but which has not been found; § is attached to the few names of foreigners.
Before Henry VIII
Writers.
Poets. Geoffrey Chaucer (†1400). John Gower (†1408).
Prose. Sir John Mandeville (†1372).
Mathematics. John Holywood (†1256). Roger Bacon (†1294). John Ashindon (†13..).
Alchemy. George Ripley (†1490).
Church and State. S. Dunstan (†988). S. Edmund Rich (†1240). Owen Glendower (†1415). William Canynges (†1474). John Morton (†1500).
Henry VIII–Mary (†1558)
Writers. Sir Thomas More (†1535). §Desiderius Erasmus (†1536).
Mathematics. Richard Benese (†1546). Robert Record (†1558).
Church and State. John Colet (†1519). Thomas Wolsey (†1530). John Innocent (†1545). Sir Thomas Pope (†1559). Edmund Bonner (†1569). Sir Erasmus Dryden (†1632).
Elizabeth (†1603)
Writers.
Poets. Thomas Tusser (†1580). Edmund Spenser (†1599). Sir Edward Dyer (†1607). William Shakespear (†1616).
Prose. §‡ Petrus Ramus (†1572). John Twyne (†1581). Sir Philip Sydney (†1586). John Foxe (†1587). Robert Glover (†1588). Thomas Cooper (†1594). Thomas Stapleton (†1598). Thomas North (†1601). William Watson (†1603). John Stowe (†1605). Thomas Brightman (†1607). John David Rhese (†1609). Nicholas Hill (†1610).
Mathematics. James Peele (†15..). Leonard Digges (†1571). Thomas Digges (†1595). John Securis († …). Evans Lloyd († …). Cyprian Lucar († …). Thomas Hoode († …). ‡ Thomas Blundeville (†16..). Henry Billingsley (†1606). § Ludolph van Keulen (†1610). John Blagrave (†1611). Edward Wright (†1615). Thomas Hariot (†1621). Sir Henry Savile (†1622).
Chemistry. Adrian Gilbert († …).
Zoology. Thomas Mouffet (†1604).
Alchemy and Astrology. Thomas Charnocke (†1581). John Dee (†1608). Arthur Dee (†1651).
State. William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke (†1570). William Cecil, lord Burghley (†1598). Robert Devereux, earl of Essex (†1601). Sir Charles Danvers (†1601). George Clifford, earl of Cumberland (†1605). Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (†1608). ? Sir Thomas Penruddock († …).
Law. Sir William Fleetwood (†1594). William Aubrey (†1595). Sir John Popham (†1607).
Commerce, etc. Sir Thomas Gresham (†1579). John Davys, capt. (†1605). Richard Staper (†1608).
Society. ? … Robartes († …). Elizabeth Danvers († …). Sir John Danvers (†1594). Richard Herbert (†1596). Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (†1604). Sir Henry Lee (†1611). Silvanus Scory (†1617). Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (†1621).
James I (†1625)
Writers.
Poets. Francis Beaumont (†1616). John Fletcher (†1625). Arthur Gorges (†1625).
Mathematics. Edward Brerewood (†1613). John Norden (†1625). Edmund Gunter (†1626). Thomas Allen (†1632). Robert Hues (†1632). John Speidell (†16..). ‡Thomas Fale (†16..). ‡Thomas Lydiat (†1646).
Astrology. Dr. Richard Napier (†1634).
Church. Richard Bancroft (†1610). John Overall (†1619). Lancelot Andrewes (†1626). George Abbot (†1633). John Davenant (†1641).
State. Everard Digby (†1606). Thomas Overbury (†1613). ‡James I (†1625). William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke (†1630).
Law. Sir Thomas Egerton, lord Ellesmere (†1617). Richard Martin (†1618).
Medicine. … Jaquinto (†16..). William Butler (†1618). Francis Anthony (†1623).
Commerce, etc. Thomas Sutton (†1611). John Guy (†1628). John Whitson (†1629). Sir Hugh Middleton (†1631). William de Visscher (†16..). Edward Davenant (†16..).
Inventors. William Lee (†1610). … Gregory (†16..). … Ingelbert (†16..). … Robson (†16..).
Seamen. Walter Raleigh (†1617). ‡Thomas Stump (†16..). Roger North (†1652).
Schoolmasters. Alexander Gill (†1635). Martin Billingsley (†16..).
Miscellaneous. Charles Hoskyns (†1609). Richard Sackville, 3rd earl of Dorset (†1624). Sir Henry Lee (†1631). Simon Furbisher (†16..). Fulk Greville, lord Brooke (†1628). Michael Drayton (†1631). George Chapman (†1634). Ben Jonson (†1637). George Feriby (†16..). ‡Benjamin Ruddyer (†16..).
Prose. Henry Lyte (†1607). Richard Knolles (†1610). ‡Richard White (†1612). Thomas Twyne (†1613). Thomas Coryat (†1617). Sir Walter Raleigh (†1618). John Barclay (†1621). William Camden (†1623). Nicholas Fuller (†1624). John Florio (†1625). Francis Bacon (†1626). John Speed (†1629). Thomas Archer (†1630). John Rider (†1632). Isaac Wake (†1632). William Sutton (†1632). Philemon Holland (†1637). John Willis (†16..).
Charles I (†1649)
Writers.
Poets. Hugh Holland (†1633). George Herbert (†1633). Richard Corbet (†1635). Thomas Randolph (†1635). John Sherburne (†1635). Sir Robert Aiton (†1638). John Hoskyns (†1638). Philip Massinger (†1640). Charles Aleyn (†1640). Sir John Suckling (†1641). William Cartwright (†1643). Henry Clifford, earl of Cumberland (†1643). George Sandys (†1644). Francis Quarles (†1644). William Browne (†1645). Thomas Goodwyn (†16..). William Habington (†1654). John Taylor (†1654). Sir Robert Harley (†1656). Richard Lovelace (†1658). John Cleveland (†1658). Gideon de Laune (†1659). James Shirley (†1666).
Prose. Gervase Markham (†1637). Robert Burton (†1640). Sir Henry Spelman (†1641). W. Chillingworth (†1644). Rob. Stafford (†1644). William Twisse (†1646). Degory Wheare (†1647). Edward, lord Herbert of Chirbury (†1648). §Joh. Ger. Vossius (†1649). Abraham Wheloc (†16..). Theoph. Wodenote, sen. (†16..). §Ren é des Cartes (†1651). … Gerard (†16..). ‡Samuel Collins (†1651). §Jean L. de Balzac (†1655). John Hales (†1656). James Usher (†1656). Joseph Hall (†1656). William Harvey (†1657). Robert Sanderson (†1663). Sir Kenelm Digby (†1665).
Mathematics. Henry Briggs (†1631). William Bedwell (†1632). Nathaniel Torporley (†1632). Henry Gellibrand (†1637). Walter Warner (†1640). William Gascoigne (†1644). Charles Cavendish (†1652). Henry Isaacson (†1654). Edmund Wingate (†1656). William Oughtred (†1660). Franciscus Linus (†16..). John Tap (†16..). John Wells (†16..).
Church. Richard Neile (†1640). George Webb (†1641).
State. George Villiers, duke of Buckingham (†1628). Sir Edward Coke (†1633). William Noy (†1634). Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork (†1643). Lucius Cary, earl of Falkland (†1643). Henry Danvers, earl of Danby (†1644). Robert Dalzell, earl of Carnwarth (†1654).
Law. Sir Henry Martin (†1641). David Jenkins (†1663). Medicine. Sir Matthew Lister (†1656).
Art. Inigo Jones (†1652).
Soldiers. Charles Cavendish (†1643). Sir James Long (†1659). Sir Robert Harley (†1673). Sir William Neale (†1691).
School and College. Alexander Gill (†1642). Ralph Kettell (†1643). Hannibal Potter (†1664). Thomas Batchcroft (†1670).
Society. Elizabeth Broughton (†16..). Venetia Digby (†1633).
Miscellaneous. Elize Hele (†1633). John Clavell (†1642). ? … Cradock (†16..).
Commonwealth
Writers.
Poets. Thomas May (†1650). Katherine Philips (†1664). George Withers (†1667). John Milton (†1674). Andrew Marvell (†1678).
Prose. Clement Walker (†1651). John Selden (†1654). Walter Rumsey (†1660). Thomas Fuller (†1661). William Prynne (†1669).
Mathematics. Richard Billingsley (†16..). Samuel Foster (†1652). Lawrence Rooke (†1662).
Science. John Wilkins (†1672).
Astrology. Nicholas Fiske (†16..).
State. Sir John Danvers (†1655). Thomas Chaloner (†1661). Sir William Platers (†16..). James Harrington (†1677). Henry Martin (†1680). Sir Henry Blount (†1682).
Soldiers and Sailors. Robert Grevill, lord Brooke (†1643). Robert Blake (†1657). George Monk (†1671). Thomas, lord Fairfax (†1671).
Law. Henry Rolle (†1656).
Medicine. Jonathan Goddard (†1675).
School. Thomas Triplett (†1670).
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