Thesis
William Lithgow's Totall discourse (1632) and his science of the world
- Alternative title:
- a seventeenth-century Protestant traveller's view of Europe and the Near East
- Abstract:
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This thesis is an examination of William Lithgow (1582-1645?), and travel and travel writing in the early seventeenth century. Lithgow’s chief work, The Totall Discourse of the rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations…. (1632), is notable for its outspoken treatments of Roman Catholicism in Europe and Palestine, its melancholy assessments of Mediterranean civilisation, its remarks on combined English and Scottish colonial enterprises in Ireland, and its ‘eye-witness’ description...
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-03-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Burns, J
- Copyright date:
- 1997
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