| Evidence: | Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic state" following a tertian ague: "Far from curing Boyle, he later testified, the stories 'prejudic'd him by unsettling his Thoughts ... accustom's his Thoughts to such a Habitude of Raving, that he hath scarce ever been their quiet Master since.'" |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1627 and 1645 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Boyle |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1627 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | romances including Amadis de Gaulle |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6199 | |
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| Author: | Adrian Johns | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making | |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 380-81 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 380-81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6199, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Quotations from Robert Boyle, "Account of Philaretus in his Minority," in Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, ed. M. Hunter (London, 1994) 8-9. |
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