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- catalog abstract ""Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise"--Pub. info.".
- catalog contributor b13183254.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History To 1485 Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History To 1485.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise"--Pub. info.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-458) and index.".
- catalog description "The rise of the antiquary -- People -- Antiquarian societies -- The ancient Britons -- The Romans in Britain -- The Anglo-Saxons -- The Middle Ages -- Preservation -- Popularisation -- Achievement.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 473 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Antiquaries.".
- catalog identifier "1852853093".
- catalog isFormatOf "Antiquaries.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Hambledon and London : Distributed in the US exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog relation "Antiquaries.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History To 1485 Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History To 1485.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941/.0072 22".
- catalog subject "Antiquarians England History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Antiquarians Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "DA129.5 .S94 2004".
- catalog subject "Historiography Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The rise of the antiquary -- People -- Antiquarian societies -- The ancient Britons -- The Romans in Britain -- The Anglo-Saxons -- The Middle Ages -- Preservation -- Popularisation -- Achievement.".
- catalog title "Antiquaries : the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century Britain / Rosemary Sweet.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".