Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax and Vegetius...

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Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax and Vegetius...

It appears the former Parliamentary commander-in-chief was preparing an updated ‘Englished’ version of Vegetius, from the French translation of von Wallhausen’s work.

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That’s really interesting! I think Maurice also did something similar several decades earlier (I can only recall references as I type this so not sure? Too early in the morning and 80 years war is, to my shame, not something I know enough about). .

Could you  do me a favour and steer me in the direction of where you found this out? Thomas Fairfax is a really interesting character and I’d love to read more re this.

Thanks for sharing - much appreciated.

Cheers!

Ian

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That’s really interesting! I think Maurice also did something similar several decades earlier (I can only recall references as I type this so not sure? Too early in the morning and 80 years war is, to my shame, not something I know enough about). .

Could you  do me a favour and steer me in the direction of where you found this out? Thomas Fairfax is a really interesting character and I’d love to read more re this.

Thanks for sharing - much appreciated.

Cheers!

Ian

 

The link is up there and I changed the color for clarity...

Renatus brought this up on October 5, 2013 on Roman Army Talk: Can you identify this passage?

He revived it on April 11 and in response to my query: Will Fairfax's unstarted work with notes  be uploaded by the British Library at some point?

I very much doubt it. It is tucked away, unattributed, in the Harley Collection.  However, they have it on microfilm, so would presumably provide a hard copy, for a price.  That's how I got my copy.

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Doh! Cheers ! Mea Culpa!