Feminine Self-reflection and the Seventeenth-Century Occasional Meditation

Anselment talks about three of the responses to the 1665 publication of Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections which are especially noteworthy. The well-known divine and family friend Richard Baxter praises the author for the way 'you call men to the manly worke of Meditation'. Baxter...

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Published inThe Seventeenth century Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 69 - 93
Main Author ANSELMENT, RAYMOND A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Taylor & Francis Group 01.03.2011
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Baxter, Richard (1615-91)
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Femininity
Meditation
Mind body relationship
Philosophers
Philosophy
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Summary:Anselment talks about three of the responses to the 1665 publication of Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections which are especially noteworthy. The well-known divine and family friend Richard Baxter praises the author for the way 'you call men to the manly worke of Meditation'. Baxter has in mind the 'shorter occasional meditations' that comprise the collection Boyle himself deems 'Trifles' written over a period of years with no intention of publishing them. 'As the most learned must not disdaine this way of cogitation', Baxter insists, 'so women & weake persons may well make it their frequent profitable worke'.
ISSN:0268-117X
2050-4616
DOI:10.1080/0268117X.2011.10555659