Read together, Kenelm Digby's Observations upon "Religio Medici" and Sir Thomas Browne's responses to Digby in private correspondence and in his address "To the Reader" in the 1643 edition of Religio show how Browne's masterpiece becomes a public text that illuminates the dynamics...

Politics in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici? Until very recently, an essay with this title could have been dangerously brief: one could simply have stated the absence of politics in Browne, or, if acknowledging a political presence, deplored its antiradical nature. (1) In...

In the following essay, Cunningham explores the relationship between Browne's role as a physician and his contributions to the understanding of religion; also includes an overview of Browne's life and works, focusing in detail on his Religio Medici.

In the following essays, Post outlines the main elements of Browne's style, focusing on his Religio Medici and characterizing it as a text that lends itself to loose interpretation due to Browne's use of wit and comic improvisation.

In the following essay, Silver offers a detailed analysis of Browne's Religio Medici in response to previous critical analyses of the work, including its famed dismissal by Stanley Fish. Silver admits that while she dismisses Fish's arguments against Browne in general, she agrees with the critic when he states that Browne is often defended to the extreme by his admirers, who fail to recognize the conservative and often “luscious” nature of Browne's writing.