Training the virtuoso: John Aubrey’s education and early life

Kelsey Jackson Williams

doi:10.7227/TSC.27.2.2

Training the virtuoso: John Aubrey’s education and early life

Kelsey Jackson Williams

School of History

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John Aubrey's contributions to antiquarianism and archaeology helped to shape the development of several disciplines in English scholarship. This paper looks at the educational milieu that produced his pioneering work, following him from his Wiltshire gentry background through school at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to Trinity College, Oxford, the Middle Temple, and beyond as a young gentleman with a scientific turn of mind in Commonwealth London. It substantially clarifies and revises previous estimates of the extent and nature of his education and offers a case study in the early training of a Restoration "virtuoso".

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-182
Journal	The Seventeenth Century
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7227/TSC.27.2.2
Publication status	Published - 2012

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