From Production to Reception: Reading the Perambuliation

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Previous articleNext article No AccessWILLIAM LAMBARDE'S READING, REVISION AND RECEPTION: THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE PERAMBULATION OF KENTFrom Production to Reception: Reading the PerambuliationPDFPDF PLUSAbstract Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreAbstractThis essay traces some of the ways in which readers read and used Lambarde’s book. Their responses, and Lambarde’s reactions to them, tell a number of stories. Readers found the Perambulation a treasury of information about law, ecclesiastical history, geography and much more, as annotated copies of the book show. From the first, Lambarde insisted that admirers exaggerated his accomplishments. But he was pleased, as well as agitated, when William Camden made his book the model for his own survey of British history and topography, the Britannia (1586). Camden showed Lambarde a draft of his chapter on Kent before publication, and he incorporated Lambarde’s comments into the printed text. Like Lambarde, Camden had learned much from such friends as Abraham Ortelius, who encouraged his work as an antiquary. After Britannia appeared, the two men responded to one another’s ideas and worked them into new versions of their writing. The story of their friendship reveals that Lambarde continued to apply the collaborative approach that he had used when working with Laurence Nowell and Matthew parker—and suggests that it was typical more broadly for antiquarian scholarship.DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Volume 81, Number 12018 Published for the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute Views: 12Total views on this site Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/JWCI26614769 Views: 12Total views on this site Copyright © 2018 by The Warburg Institute. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.