Antiquarianist

As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.

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[…] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.

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Within a generation after Polo, Albornoz, and Cristóbal de Molina wrote their accounts, investigation into such things became a matter for antiquarianists: No longer performed, most such rites, especially those tied to public contexts and Inca state activities, disappeared into the past, recoverable only through the writings of those closer to the events.

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During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.

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