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Kenelm Digby: resources and references - John Sutton
SIR KENELM DIGBY
1603-1665
Resources and References
John Sutton
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This is an embryonic page for biographical, philosophical,
scientific,
literary, theological, and cultural
inquiry about Sir Kenelm
Digby, 1603-1665.
If you have suggestions or additions, please do email
me.
Info on my play Kenelm Digby
and the Liquid Empire
Surprisingly enough, Kenelm Digby
really
existed. Here are a few sources for the life and work of
this remarkable man.
Key
Print Sources
Online
Resources
Further
Background References
Key
Print Sources
John Aubrey, 'Kenelm Digby' and 'Venetia
Digby', in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Oliver
Lawson Dick (Penguin Classics). Quintessential two-page gossipy
biographies.
Kenelm Digby, Loose Fantasies, ed.
V. Gabrieli (Roma, 1968). The first full edition.
Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises: in
the one of which, the nature of bodies, in the other, the
nature of man's mind, is looked into (Paris: Gilles Blaizot,
1644;
reprint by Garland
Publishing, 1978). The great work.
Betty Jo Dobbs, 'Studies in the Natural
Philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby, I Ambix 18 (1971), 1-25
[introduction and the powder of sympathy]; II Ambix 20 (1973),
143-163
[Digby and alchemy];
III Ambix 21 (1974), 1-28 [experimental alchemy in Digby's Book
of Secrets]. NB Dobbs
foreshadows a further article on Digby's biology: does anyone know if
she
ever published it?
Michael Foster, 'Sir Kenelm Digby
(1603-65)
as man of religion and thinker', The Downside Review
1988,
January, 35-58, and April, 101-125. Fairly detailed historical account,
with fabulous
material on the Catholic intrigues of the 1640s and 1650s.
John Henry, 'Atomism and Eschatology:
Catholicism and natural philosophy in the Interregnum',
British
Journal for the History of Science 1982, 211-239. Brilliant
historical
detective work on
intellectual, theological, and political dimensions of Digby's and
Thomas
White's work.
Bruce Janacek, 'Catholic Natural
Philosophy:
Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby',
in Margaret J. Osler (ed), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge
UP, 2000)
Allardyce Nicoll, 'Sir Kenelm Digby, poet,
philosopher, and pirate of the Restoration', Johns
Hopkins Alumni Magazine 21 (1933), 330-352. Apart from the strange
title, a nice literary
evocation of the life.
R.T. Petersson, Sir Kenelm Digby:
the ornament of England 1603-1665 (Jonathan Cape, 1956).
The best biography, rich and sentimental and detailed.
Davida Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby
F.R.S.:
a bibliography based on the collection of K. Garth Huston
(San
Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co, 1991). Detailed bibliography based
on
the collection of
a Los Angeles surgeon and historical enthusiast.
Ann Sumner (ed.), Death, Passion,
and Politics: van Dyck's portraits of Venetia Stanley and
George Digby (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1995). Includes colour
plates
of the portraits, and
a number of useful essays, including 'Sir Kenelm Digby and Venetia
Stanley:
a love story
of the 17th century' by Polly Amos and Ann Sumner; 'Venetia Digby: a
perfect
wife?' by
Caroline Bowden; '"Whimseys of that Great Virtuoso": the thought of Sir
Kenelm Digby' by
Beverley Southgate; and 'Venetia's Death and Kenelm's Mourning' by
Clare
Gittings.
Roy Digby Thomas, Digby: the
gunpowder
plotter's legacy (Janus Publishing, 2001). Despite the
curious title, this is a full-scale new biography of Kenelm. Lots of
overlooked
and neglected
material.
Online
Resources
(please
email with
suggestions)
Digby:
The Gunpowder Plotter’s Legacy ...A Feature Film in Development...
by Dianne Thomas and Roy Digby Thomas
Van Dyck's portrait of Venetia
on her Deathbed
'Sir Kenelm Digby',
in The Catholic Encyclopedia
'Digby,
Kenelm', in The
Galileo Project.
'Who
is Sir Kenelm Digby and what does he have to do with Hawthorne?'.
'Venetia
Digby on her Deathbed', by Ann Sumner,
History
Today 45 (1995). You can access this
online if you're in a library which subscribes to the journal via the
Expanded
Academic system:
otherwise just look at Ann Sumner's edited collection as above.
'Pages from the
Closet of Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt, Opened',
from Spencer's Beer Pages. Includes
recipes and lists of ingredients for 'Digby's' meath, metheglin, beer,
and sack.
'Embryonic
Individuals: the rhetoric of seventeenth-century embryology and the
construction
of early
modern
identity' , by Eve Keller, Eighteenth-Century
Studies 33 (2000), 321-348 [online if your
library has access to the Muse journals system].
'The
Powder of Sympathy and the Problem of Longitude': Dava
Sobel and Umberto Eco.
'A Spear Dipped in
Poppy Juice?' by Charles Cameron, on
the
powder of sympathy, symmetry, &
blood lust.
'Gayhurst',
from the UK & Ireland Genealogy. "In 1642 there were 35 people
named
in the tax returns ...
Between them they were assessed at 4 pounds 18 and 6 of which sum The
Lady
Digbie [ie
Mary Mulsho, KD's mother] contributed 3 pounds."
Further
Background References
E.W. Bligh, Sir Kenelm Digby and
his Venetia (London, 1932). Wonderful 1930s sensibilities.
Brian Burch, 'Sir Kenelm Digby and
Christchurch,
Newgate Street', Guildhall Miscellany 2 (1964),
248-256. Reprints documents relating to Digby's monument to Venetia,
and
his will.
William F Bynum, 'The Weapon Salve in
Seventeenth Century English Drama', Journal of the
History of Medicine 21 (1966), 8-23. Focus on an appalling play by
the magnificently obscure
Henry Glapthorne.
Kenelm Digby, Journal of a Voyage
into the Mediterranean (Camden Society, 1868; reprint by
AMS Press, 1968). Curiosities, obstacles, and interruptions to piracy.
Kenelm Digby, Observations Upon
Religio
Medici 1644 (reprint by the Scolar Press, 1973).
Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the
Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt, Opened.
John F. Fulton, Sir Kenelm Digby:
writer, bibliophile, and protagonist of William Harvey
(New York: Peter & Katharine Oliver, 1937)
Vittorio Gabrieli, Sir Kenelm
Digby:
un inglese italianato nell'eta della controriforma (Roma,
1957): pp.237-291 are letters and documents by Digby, including many
from
his mourning. See also
further selections in Gabrieli's National Library of Wales Journal articles
of 1955.
William F. Gafafer, 'Kenelm Digby,
Seventeenth
Century Psychotherapist', Human Biology 5 (1933),
506-515. Disappointing.
Robert Gordon Grenell, 'Sir Kenelme Digby,
Embryologist', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 10
(1941), 48-62. ("The prevailing opinion among those who have written of
Sir Kenelme Digby
seems to be to the effect that he could appreciate the ideas of other
minds,
but was in no
way an original, creative thinker himself. After a perusal of Digby's
works,
it is difficult to
comprehend the basis for this conclusion.")
R.H. Kargon, History of Atomism
(Oxford,
1966), chapter 7.
Peter Logan, Nerves and Narratives
pp.115-7
on echopraxia and contagions of the imagination.
Ida Macalpine and Richard A. Hunter, 'A
Case of True Allergy established by Patch Testing and
reported by Sir Kenelme Digby in 1645', British Journal of
Dermatology
68 (1956), 61-2.
Andrea Nye, The Princess and the
Philosopher (1999), pp.42-44 on Digby, Elizabeth, &
Descartes.
John Sutton, Philosophy and Memory
Traces: Descartes to connectionism (Cambridge UP,
1998), chapter 5: Digby on memory.
Thanks to Peter Anstey, Stephen
Gaukroger,
Russell Johnson, Annie Natalelli-Waloszek, Will Sutton,
and Roy Digby Thomas.
Kenelm
Digby and the Liquid Empire
Last updated 28 August 2006.
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