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Selden, John
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Selden, John (1584-1654)

English antiquarian and opponent of Charles I's claim to the divine right of kings (the doctrine that the monarch is answerable to God alone), for which he was twice imprisoned. His Table Talk 1689 consists of short essays on political and religious questions.
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He discusses both historians and literary figures: William Camden, John Speed, John Selden, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton, as well as many others.
John E. Curran, Jr. Roman Invasions: the British History, Protestant ... by Baker, David J. / Renaissance Quarterly
It was that supreme and sometimes successful effort to record and even to revive the dead past, in fact, that eventually led Samuel Butler, once tutored by Peiresc's friend and fellow scholar John Selden, to mock the antiquary as one "Who has no Busnes for the Intellect / But to Transcribe and Copy, and Collect; / .
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. ... by Reeves, Eileen / Renaissance Quarterly
In his work on John Selden, Paul Christianson offers a close reading of Selden's works on history, governance, and law from the 1610s and 1630s, sandwiched together with a detailed analysis of Selden's parliamentary career in the 1620s.
Francis Bacon: The History of A Character Assasinatio by Peltonen, Markku / Renaissance Quarterly
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