Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North - Hardcover

North, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802044719 ISBN 13: 9780802044716

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2000

Synopsis

Roger North was an English writer, lawyer, and polymath. In this autobiography, he wanders the intellectual, political, and cultural fields of Restoration England, mapping the state of his country and the state of his selfhood. By describing the multifarious currents affecting his life, North (1653-1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II's treatment of the Protestant courtiers, while recounting his upbringing in an impoverished noble family, his education at Cambridge, and his career as a successful lawyer. Modern readers will find his sympathetic account of witch trials particularly intriguing.

This document, fascinating as a part of the history of self-awareness as well as the history of the period from a Tory, anti-Newtonian, high-church perspective, has, until now, only been available in a corrupted nineteenth-century publication. Peter Millard's edition contains full annotations that provide historical context and include references to North's other works. The introduction elucidates the current scholarly interest in North's precocious development of a more integrated theory of the psycho-physical nature of human cognition, and reveals the autobiography as the key necessary to understanding North's ideas.

About this title

About the Author

Peter MIllard was Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan. He had previously edited Roger North's biography of his brother, The Life of Dr. John North.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802044719
• ISBN 13: 9780802044716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Millard Peter