Scholars seek to spread word on Sir Walter Raleigh [History of the World vol I]

Virginian-Pilot ^ | February 1, 2009 | Catherine Kozak

[SunkenCiv]

Robert Anthony, curator of the North Carolina collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... was one of the 24 scholars who holed up last month in the Tower of London, the dank quarters where Raleigh spent most of the last 15 years of his life working on Volume I of the "History of the World." When the academics emerged from the Tower after two days, it was agreed that a critical analysis of the writings and works of the man largely responsible for persuading the queen to launch the 1584-87 Roanoke Voyages is long overdue. Although Raleigh was a renowned writer, akin to a bestselling author today, the last time his principal works have been published as a whole was in 1829. With the 400th anniversary of the publication of the "History of the World" in 2014, the Raleigh Research Circle agreed to collaborate in efforts to bring together Raleigh's works, digitalized, critiqued and analyzed when possible... While imprisoned, Raleigh had access to a large library, said Frank Romer, professor of classics and chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. In writing his first volume of the "History of the World," Raleigh covered vast territory, from Genesis to Hannibal to Rome's Macedonian wars. According to an outline of the conference provided by Tise, Nicholas Popper, a CalTech scholar who spoke to the group, said Raleigh cited 500 published sources in the work, many of them written in the century before Raleigh embarked on his volume. It was the first time anyone had attempted to write a world history in English, Popper said.

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Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee G. Miller	Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee G. Miller
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Roanoke-settlement

American anthropologist Lee Miller, in Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony proposed that the expedition was sabotaged from the beginning by Sir Walter Raleigh’s rival at court, Elizabeth’s “spymaster,” Francis Walsingham, while other theorists contend that the colony moved wholesale, and was later destroyed.

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[muawiyah]

Or, that it simply "moved". The Jamestown colony was founded right at the end of a 17 year Drought that affected Coastal Virginia, and presumably Maryland, Delaware and the Carolana coast (so-called before the area was taken over by England).

[bigheadfred]

Roanoke Island: What Happened to the Lost Colonists of 1587?

[mass55th]

Photos of Sir Walter Raleigh's cell taken by me at The Tower of London in 2006:

[twigs]

I read her first book—it read like a mystery. I really liked it and would recommend it to anyone.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Given their geographical location, I have long thought that you have to at least consider the possibility that the “Lost Colony” was taken out by what we would now call a category 5 hurricane.

[bigheadfred]

I didn’t know they had storms that big back then. I thought they only started with the advent of major industrialization—global warming. :-)

Or Dick Cheney’s weather machine can do time travel.

I think the locals ate them.

[SunkenCiv]

Shh! Cheney doesn’t want that info spread around.

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Thanks!

[Jessarah]

"I read her first book—it read like a mystery. I really liked it and would recommend it to anyone."

What is the name of the book you are recommending?

[twigs]

Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony