The amateur and the professional : antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886
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Bibliographic Information
The amateur and the professional : antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886
Cambridge University Press, 1986
Available at 17 libraries
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Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis
Bibliography: p. 186-199
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book highlights the growing divide in nineteenth-century intellectual circles between amateur and professional interest, and explores the institutional means whereby professional ascendancy was achieved in the broad field of studies of the past. It is concerned with how antiquarian 'gentlemen of leisure', pursuing their interests through local archaeological societies, were, by the end of the century, relegated to the sidelines of the now university-based discipline of history. At the same time it explores the theological as well as technical barriers which arrested the development of archaeology in this period. This is a notable contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England, attending not simply to the ideas perpetrated by these communities of scholarship but to their social status, relating such social consideration to a more traditional intellectual history to create a new social history of ideas.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Community and consensus
- 3. Individuals in concert
- 4. Past history and present politics
- 5. The role of government
- 6. The contribution of the universities
- 7. Consolidation and division
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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