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Biblical scholarship, science and politics in early modern England : Thomas Browne and the thorny place of knowledge

"Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics..." represents a particularly demanding piece of research in that it explores methodological similarities across science and scriptural hermeneutics and a set of correlates in the period’s political-religious landscape. In order to present this thesis, it was necessary to develop expertise across diverse intellectual fields, the history of theology – and a dense, multilingual biblical scholarship - and the history of two major branches of science – early modern matter theory and natural history. The research (carried out over 11 years) was supported by an AHRC doctoral award and a Leverhulme early career fellowship.