"Men Are Lived Over Againe": VThe Transmigrations of Sir Thomas Browne.
Jessica Lynn Wolfe considers the various and contradictory positions assumed by Sir Thomas Browne on the subject of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, explaining his confusion over the doctrine in terms of his medical, theological, and literary habits of thought. By placing Browne's var...
| Publicado en: | Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 61 - 95 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2020
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