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Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England / Marjorie Swann.

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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnog...

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Main Author: Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Collectors and collecting > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Curiosities and wonders > England > History > 17th century.
Natural history > England > History > 17th century.
Antiquarians > Great Britain > Biography.
England > Civilization > 17th century.
Antiquarians
Civilization
Collectors and collecting
Curiosities and wonders
English literature > Early modern
Natural history
England
Great Britain
1500 - 1700
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

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