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30-646: Jean or Jeannie Robertson may refer to: People [ edit ] Jean Robertson (author) (Jean Bromley, 1913–1990), British scholar of English renaissance literature Jean Robertson (actress) (c.1894–1967), Australian stage and screen actress Jean Robertson Burnet (1920–2009), Canadian academic's maiden name Jean McKenzie (Jean Robertson McKenzie, 1901–1964), New Zealand diplomat Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905–1962), British actress Jeannie Robertson (1908–1975), Scottish folk singer Characters [ edit ] Jean Robertson-Holley (née Jean Robertson),

60-554: A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk (1658), was inspired by the discovery in Norfolk of some 40 to 50 Anglo-Saxon burial urns . It is a literary meditation upon death, the funerary customs of the world and the ephemerality of fame. The other discourse in the diptych is antithetical in style, subject matter and imagery. The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of

90-469: A fictional character from Unclaimed Jean Robertson, a character and teratology of novels from Jane Duncan See also [ edit ] John Robertson (disambiguation) ("Jean" is French for "John") Jen Robertson (disambiguation) Robertson (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

120-736: Is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence. Thomas Browne was born in the parish of St Michael , Cheapside , in London on 19 October 1605. He was the youngest child of Thomas Browne, a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire , and Anne Browne, the daughter of Paul Garraway of Lewes , Sussex . He had an elder brother and two elder sisters. The family, who had lived at Upton for several generations, were "evidently people of some importance" who "intermarried with families of position in that neighbourhood", and were armigerous . Browne's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth,

150-594: The Church of England ". However, the complexity of Browne's labyrinthine thought processes, his highly stylised language, his many allusions to Biblical, Classical and contemporary learning, along with esoteric authors, are each contributing factors to why he remains obscure, little-read, and, thus, misunderstood. A master neologist , Browne appears at number 69 in the Oxford English Dictionary ' s list of top-cited sources. He has 775 entries in

180-725: The Huntington Library in California, publishing articles, among others, on Nicholas Breton . Robertson taught English literature at Liverpool till 1949. She was in Oxford, where her husband was a Fellow of Keble College , from 1949–1960. In 1964, she became a lecturer at the University of Southampton , and Reader in 1972. From the 1950s, she was an assistant editor of The Review of English Studies at Oxford, to which she contributed articles for several decades. She

210-785: The New Arcadia . Her introduction was called a model of completeness, and the commentary admirably analytic. Robertson won the 1974 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her edition of Philip Sidney 's Old Arcadia . In 1979, Robertson was awarded a Doctor of Letters honoris causa degree by the University of Southampton. The International Sidney Society instituted the Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award in her honour. Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne ( / b r aʊ n / "brown"; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682)

240-681: The 19th century, Browne's reputation was revived by the Romantics . Thomas De Quincey , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and Charles Lamb (who considered himself the rediscoverer of Browne) were all admirers. Carlyle was also influenced by him. The composer William Alwyn wrote a symphony in 1973 based upon the rhythmical cadences of Browne's literary work Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial . The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges alluded to Browne throughout his literary writings, from his first publication, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) until his last years. He described Browne as "the best prose writer in

270-499: The 19th of October in the year of Our Lord 1682 and lies sleeping in this coffin. With the dust of his alchemical body he converts lead into gold". The origin of the invented word spagyrici is from the Greek spao to tear open + ageiro to collect, a signature neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his medicine-oriented alchemy; the origins of iatrochemistry , being first advanced by him. Browne's coffin-plate verse, along with

300-808: The Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered (1658) features the quincunx that Browne used to demonstrate evidence of the Platonic forms in art and nature. Browne believed in the existence of angels and witchcraft . He attended the 1662 Bury St Edmunds witch trial , where his citation of a similar trial in Denmark may have influenced the jury's minds concerning two accused women, who were later found guilty of witchcraft. In November 1671, King Charles II , accompanied by his Court , visited Norwich. The courtier John Evelyn , who had occasionally corresponded with Browne, made good use of

330-656: The English language". In the 18th century, Samuel Johnson , who shared Browne's love of the Latinate , wrote a brief Life in which he praised Browne as a faithful Christian and assessed his prose. The English author Virginia Woolf wrote two short essays about him, observing in 1923, "Few people love the writings of Sir Thomas Browne, but those who do are the salt of the earth." Clive James included an essay on Browne in his Cultural Amnesia collection. James celebrated Browne's style and originality, stating that Browne

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360-558: The English language. The freshness and ingenuity of his mind invested everything he touched with interest; while on more important subjects his style, if frequently ornate and Latinate, often rises to the highest pitch of stately eloquence. He has a paradoxical and ambiguous place in the history of ideas , as equally, a devout Christian, a promoter of the new inductive science, and an adherent of ancient esoteric learning. For these reasons, one literary critic succinctly assessed him as "an instance of scientific reason lit up by mysticism in

390-938: The OED of first usage of a word, is quoted in a total of 4131 entries of first evidence of a word, and is quoted 1596 times as first evidence of a particular meaning of a word. Examples of his coinages, many of which are of a scientific or medical nature, include 'ambidextrous', 'antediluvian', 'analogous', 'approximate', 'ascetic', 'anomalous', 'carnivorous', 'coexistence', 'coma', 'compensate', 'computer', 'cryptography', 'cylindrical', 'disruption', 'ergotisms', 'electricity', 'exhaustion', 'ferocious', 'follicle', 'generator', 'gymnastic', 'hallucination', 'herbaceous', 'holocaust', 'insecurity', 'indigenous', 'jocularity', 'literary', 'locomotion', 'medical', 'migrant', 'mucous', 'prairie', 'prostate', 'polarity', 'precocious', 'pubescent', 'therapeutic', 'suicide', 'ulterior', 'ultimate' and 'veterinarian'. The influence of his literary style spans four centuries. In

420-572: The collected works of Paracelsus and several followers of the Swiss physician listed in his library, is evidence that although sometimes highly critical of Paracelsus, nevertheless, like the 'Luther of Medicine', he believed in palingenesis , physiognomy , alchemy, astrology and the kabbalah . The Library of Sir Thomas Browne was held in the care of his eldest son Edward until 1708. The auction of Browne and his son Edward's libraries in January 1711

450-439: The first reliable edition of Philip Sidney 's Old Arcadia in 1973. There had been five manuscripts found in 1907 but only one of these, arbitrarily chosen by Albert Feuillerat, was printed in 1926, with no effort to establish concordance between the copies. By the time Robertson began her work, nine manuscripts were known, and she divided these into four groups, representing four revisions by Sidney, before his drastic rewrite into

480-405: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Robertson&oldid=1194187976 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jean Robertson (author) Jean Robertson

510-600: The name of the Mayor of Norwich was proposed to the King for knighthood . The Mayor, however, declined the honour and proposed Browne's name instead. Browne died on 19 October 1682, his 77th birthday. He was buried in the chancel of St Peter Mancroft , Norwich. His skull was removed when his lead coffin was accidentally re-opened by workmen in 1840. It was not re-interred in St Peter Mancroft until 4 July 1922 when it

540-505: The popularity of Nicholas Breton's A Poste with a Packet of Madde Letters (1602), she showed, sparked a trend for pithy and entertaining guides to correspondence. However, other scholars criticised the work for not establishing clearly enough what the golden standard was for letters: a simple style (as espoused by Sir Thomas Browne or Hannah Woolley ) or affected (as evidenced in Cupids Messenger (1672)). Robertson produced

570-458: The royal visit to call upon "the learned doctor" of European fame and wrote of his visit, recording that "his whole house and garden is a paradise and Cabinet of rarities and that of the best collection, amongst Medails, books, Plants, natural things". During his visit, Charles visited Browne's home. A banquet was held in St Andrew's Hall for the royal visit. Obliged to honour a notable local,

600-470: The time, it displays the Baconian side of Browne—the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called the " New Learning ". The book is significant in the history of science because it promoted an awareness of scientific journalism. The last works published by Browne were two philosophical Discourses. They are closely related to each other in concept. The first, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or

630-420: Was Religio Medici (The Religion of a Physician) . It surprised him when an unauthorised edition appeared in 1642, which included unorthodox religious speculations. An authorised text appeared in 1643, with some of the more controversial views removed. The expurgation did not end the controversy. The Scottish writer Alexander Ross attacked Religio Medici in his Medicus Medicatus (1645). Browne's book

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660-457: Was "minting new coin" with everything he wrote. The National Portrait Gallery in London has a contemporary portrait by Joan Carlile of Sir Thomas Browne and his wife Dorothy , probably completed between 1641 and 1650. More recent sculptural portraits include Henry Alfred Pegram 's 1905 statue of Sir Thomas contemplating with an urn in Norwich. This statue occupies the central position in

690-563: Was also a secretary of the Oxford Bibliographical Society. Jean Robertson died in 1990 in Birmingham. Robertson's treatise on medieval letter-writing manuals ( The Art of Letter Writing , 1942) was well-received. She traced over two centuries of English letter writers, beginning with Latin formularies, and pointing out the social significance of the changes in epistolary models over the period. For instance,

720-638: Was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric . His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world , influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia , Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style

750-467: Was attended by Hans Sloane . Editions from the library were subsequently included in the founding collection of the British Library . On 14 March 1673, Browne sent a short autobiography to the antiquarian John Aubrey , presumably for Aubrey's collection of Brief Lives , which provides an introduction to his life and writings: Browne is widely considered one of the most original writers in

780-461: Was born in 1913 to Ainslie Robertson and Phyllis Mary Raeghton. She attended Howell's School, Denbigh and graduated from the University of Liverpool . She was an assistant lecturer at Liverpool between 1937–1942 in the English department. In 1939, she married J. S. Bromley, a naval historian (1913–1985). By 1942, she was working for the Board of Trade on war service. She was a research fellow at

810-682: Was chosen to deliver the undergraduate oration when the hall was incorporated as Pembroke College in August 1624. He graduated from Oxford in January 1627, after which he studied medicine at Padua and Montpellier universities, completing his studies at Leiden , where he received a medical degree in 1633. He settled in Norwich in 1637 and practised medicine there until he died in 1682. In 1641, Browne married Dorothy Mileham of Burlingham St Peter , Norfolk . They had 10 children, six of whom died before their parents. Browne's first literary work

840-492: Was placed upon the Papal Index Librorum Prohibitorum in the same year. In 1646 Browne published his encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths , the title of which refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and "vulgar errors". A sceptical work that debunks in a methodical and witty manner several legends circulating at

870-606: Was recorded in the burial register as aged 317 years. Browne's coffin plate , which was stolen the same time as his skull, was also eventually recovered, broken into two halves, one of which is on display at St Peter Mancroft. Alluding to the commonplace opus of alchemy it reads, Amplissimus Vir Dns. Thomas Browne, Miles, Medicinae Dr., Annos Natus 77 Denatus 19 Die mensis Octobris, Anno. Dni. 1682, hoc Loculo indormiens. Corporis Spagyrici pulvere plumbum in aurum Convertit. — translated from Latin as "The esteemed Gentleman Thomas Browne, Knight, Doctor of Medicine, 77 years old, died on

900-556: Was the daughter of Henry Birkenhead, Clerk of the Green Cloth to Elizabeth I of England and Clerk of the Crown for the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire . Browne's father died while he was young, and his mother married Sir Thomas Dutton of Gloucester and Isleworth , Middlesex , by whom she had two daughters. Browne was educated at Winchester College . In 1623, he went to Broadgates Hall of Oxford University . Browne

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