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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2013
      15 November 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139208239
      9781108047876
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208239
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.91kg, 626 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, British History 1066-1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, British History 1066-1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
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    Thomas Wright (1810–77) was a highly prolific scholar of Old and Middle English and archaeology, although some of his work, particularly that on prehistory, was contentious. The present work, which he edited and published in 1863, comprises two texts by Alexander Neckam (1157–1217). The son of Richard I's foster mother, Neckam was a respected teacher and prolific scholar who became abbot of Cirencester. The larger of these texts, De naturis rerum, consists of a scientific manual followed by a theological treatise, a commentary on Ecclesiastes. Neckam later produced an abbreviated verse form of this, the second text found here. The first part of each text is a compendium of all the scientific knowledge of western Europe and England in the twelfth century, which Neckam aimed to treat morally as well as factually. In producing this edition, Wright has included the Latin marginal annotations, possibly by Neckam himself, found in his manuscript exemplars.

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