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Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson (d. 1613), best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired in his own day for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson. It maps his connections with his contemporaries, reconstructs his reading, and edits his surviving correspondence, some seventy-eight letters. Thomson moved among the greatest scholars of his day, and was good friends with Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon. He travelled in Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, became a member of five universities, and worked with manuscripts in the libraries in England, Florence, Geneva, Heidelberg and Leiden. Modern scholarship, working within national boundaries, has tended to see only a part of the whole picture.
Price: $234.00
Pages: 388
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
Publication Date:
18 February 2016
ISBN: 9789004308244
Format: Hardcover
“Botley’s heroic effort to trace Thomson has produced a valuable resource for research on many topics, for this multilingual, well-educated, English-Dutch son of a Protestant merchant was committed to advancing classical learning in an international circle of acquaintances and friends that included some of the best scholars of his day.”
Judith Rice Henderson, University of Saskatchewan. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1483-1485.
Judith Rice Henderson, University of Saskatchewan. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1483-1485.
Paul Botley, Ph.D. (2000), University of Cambridge, teaches Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. He has published monographs on Latin translation (2004) and Greek studies (2010) in Renaissance Europe, and co-edited the letters of Joseph Scaliger (8 vols, 2012).