Article ID: CBB911983578

Bricks and Antiquarianism: Masonry and Historical Method in the Historical Sciences (2020)

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The role of sentiment in narratives generated by antiquarians, dilettanti and geologists in late eighteenth-century Britain features as a significant force in the development of the historical sciences. During the fieldwork for and subsequent publication of The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807), by Sir William Gell (1777-1836), and A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight (1816), by his colleague Sir Henry Charles Englefield (c.1752-1822), the role of association and sentiment makes visible the ruins of everyday-type architectures and geological processes, and demonstrates tensions between human-made and natural artefacts.

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Authors & Contributors
McMullan, Luke Anthony
Mallipeddi, Ramesh
Hadeel Assali
Mamdani, Mahmood
Gaffney, Michael Thomas
Pizzato, Fedra A.
Concepts
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Geology
Archaeology
Antiquarianism
Historical method
Narratology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Atlantic world
Palestine
Italy
Greece
Institutions
British Museum
Royal Society of London
Crystal Palace
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