Author : Paul Botley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004308288
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Book Synopsis Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson, c. 1569-1613 by : Paul Botley
Download or read book Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson, c. 1569-1613 written by Paul Botley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.