Religio medici, and : Hydriotaphia, or, Urne-buriall / Sir Thomas Browne ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff.

Here this baroque master's two most enduring and admired works. In Religio Medici Browne mulls over the relation between his medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, pondering the respective claims of science and religion, questions that are still very much alive today. The discovery of an ancient burial site in an English field prompted Browne to write Urne-Buriall, which is both an early anthropological examination of different practices of interment and a profound meditation on mortality.