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Museum criticum

Or, Cambridge Classical Researches

Charles James Blomfield editor James Henry Monk editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:15th Nov '12

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This early classical journal, collected in two volumes in 1826, illuminates the development of academic journals and classical scholarship.

This short-lived (1813–26) classical journal, edited by James Henry Monk (1784–1856) and Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857), contemporaries at Trinity College, Cambridge, and collected in two volumes in 1826, illuminates the development of academic journals and classical scholarship. Volume 1 contains issues 1–4.This short-lived (1813–26) classical journal was edited by James Henry Monk (1784–1856) and Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857), who were contemporaries at Trinity College, Cambridge. Both went on to ecclesiastical careers: Monk left his position as Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge to become Dean of Peterborough and subsequently Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, while Blomfeld, who already held the country living of Quarrington in Lincolnshire when the journal was founded, became Bishop of London. Encapsulating the dominant contemporary style of English classical scholarship - the close linguistic analysis of (primarily Greek) texts, as practised by Richard Porson (1759–1808), Monk's predecessor as Regius Professor - the Museum criticum became a rival to The Classical Journal (also reissued in this series) and was collected in two volumes in 1826. Illuminating the early development of academic journals, Volume 1 contains issues 1–4.

ISBN: 9781108056588

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm

Weight: 740g

590 pages