Visions of antiquity : the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007
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Visions of antiquity : the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007
（Archaeologia, v. 111）
Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Visions of antiquity : introduction / Susan Pearce
- Images of the antiquary in seventeenth-century England / Daniel Woolf
- Forming an identity : the early society and its context, 1707-51 / Arthur MacGregor
- The incorporated society and its public role / Rosemary Sweet
- The society of antiquaries and the graphic arts : George Vertue and his legacy / Martin Myrone
- Art and antiquity in the long nineteenth century / Sam Smiles
- Antiquaries and the interpretation of ancient objects, 1770-1820 / Susan Pearce
- The society, its council, the membership and publications, 1820-50 / Richard Hingley
- The development of the library / Bernard Nurse
- Prehistory in the nineteenth century / C. Stephen Briggs
- "Delineating objects" : nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and the project of archaeology / Christopher Evans
- Fabric, form and function : the Society and "the restoration question" / Rick Turner
- Breathing the future : the Antiquaries and conservation of the landscape, 1850-1950 / Richard Morris
- The grand excavation projects of the twentieth century / Michael Fulford
- Changing roles and agendas : the society of antiquaries and the professionalization of archaeology, 1950-2000 / Graeme Barker
- "A tree with many branches" : the fellowship at the start of the twenty-first century / David Gaimster
- "Society of Antiquaries?" / Eric Fernie
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This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based timeframes with a clearer understanding of deep time measured in millions of years, in drawing up the first legislation protecting ancient monuments, and in funding and publishing the great excavations of the last one hundred years, from Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Richborough and Sutton Hoo to Aksum (Ethiopia) and Mons Porphyrites (Egypt). All the papers represent fresh and original scholarship and they tell us much about the Society's achievements (and some of the accompanying conflicts between personalities and ideas) over three hundred years. They are based on diaries, letters, minute books and confidential government papers and on portraits that chart the changing image of the antiquary from a figure of fun to heroic seeker of forgotten people and civilizations. Visions of Antiquity reveals astonishing echoes across time - from the repeated and continuing attempts to record all ancient buildings and monuments to the continuity of the title 'antiquary' to describe scholars who build bridges between different branches of knowledge based on the study of material remains of the past and of a Fellowship whose numbers have included prime ministers, bishops, peers and parliamentarians, as well as radicals and free thinkers, such as William Morris and many of the founders of modern conservation.
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