Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This is the first book on the genesis, impact, and reception of the most widely read history of England of the early eighteenth century: Paul Rapin Thoyras's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1724-1727). The 'Histoire' and complementary works ('Extraits des actes de Rymer', 1710-1723; 'Dissertation sur les Whigs et les Torys', 1717) gave practical expression to theorizations of history against Pyrrhonian postulations by foregrounding an empirical form of history-writing. Rapin's unprecedented standards of historiographical accuracy triggered both politically informed reinterpretations of the 'Histoire' in partisan newspapers and a multitude of adaptations that catered to an ever-growing number of readers. Despite a long-standing assessment as a 'standard Whig historian,' Rapin fashioned the impartial persona of a judge-historian, in compliance with the expectations of the Republic of Letters. His personal trajectory illuminates how scholars pursued trustworthy knowledge and how they reconsidered the boundaries of their community in the face of the booming printing industry and the interconnected growth of general readership. Rapin's oeuvre provided significant raw material for Voltaire's and Hume's Enlightenment historiographical narratives. A comparative foray into their respective different approaches to history and authorship cautions us against assuming a direct transition from the Republic of Letters into an Enlightenment Republic of Letters. To study the diffusion and the impact of Rapin's works is to understand that empirical history-writing, defined by its commitment to erudition in the service of impartiality, coexisted with the 'histoire philosophique'."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Historiography --- Objectivity. --- Historians --- Historiographie --- Objectivité. --- Rapin Thoyras --- Republic of Letters --- history-writing --- historiography --- history of England --- History --- Histoire --- Rapin de Thoyras, --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Historiography. --- Historiographie.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin American country.Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the archive, as well as their connections to transatlantic polemics on knowledge production in the New World and debates on philosophical systems of learning. It furthermore draws upon the history of science in Mexico in order to trace the development of scientific thought and its influence on culture, religion, and fiction. This study proposes that eighteenth-century Mexican writers sought to establish a place within a global scholarly community for their local literary republic through the formation of scholarly networks, the historical exploration of the past and present, and the creation of new epistemological approaches to literary production inspired by Enlightenment ideas.This book invites those devoted to the study of eighteenth-century cultures to engage in an examination of a lesser-explored scholarly territory and its networks, and to think about how it was heterogeneously constructed by many-sided polemics and debates which manifested in a broad range of literary works.

Communication in learning and scholarship --- Mexican literature --- Enlightenment. --- Communication in learning and scholarship. --- Intellectual life. --- Mexican literature. --- Social conditions. --- enlightenment --- transatlantic polemics --- eighteenth-century Mexico --- Republic of Letters --- History --- History and criticism. --- Republic of Letters (Society) --- 1700-1799 --- Mexico --- Mexico. --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

As well as presenting a new history of seventeenth-century biblical criticism, it also critiques modern scholarly assumptions about the relationships between erudition, humanistic culture, political activism, and religious identity. Book jacket. Scholarly practices varied from one confessional context to another, and the progress of 'criticism' was never straightforward. The study demonstrates this by placing scholarly works in dialogue with works of dogmatic theology, and comparing examples from multiple confessional and national contexts. It offers major revisionist treatments of canonical figures in the history of scholarship, such as Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Selden, Hugo Grotius, and Louis Cappel, based on unstudied archival as well as printed sources; and it places those figures alongside their more marginal, overlooked counterparts. It also contextualizes scholarly correspondence and other forms of intellectual exchange by considering them alongside the records of political and ecclesiastical bodies. Throughout, the study combines the methods of the history of scholarship with techniques drawn from other fields, including literary, political, and religious history. The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters', a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and other ancient texts, while renouncing the brutal religio-political disputes that were tearing their continent apart at the same time. Criticism and Confession offers an unprecedentedly comprehensive challenge to this account. Throughout this period, all forms of biblical scholarship were intended to contribute to theological debates, rather than defusing or transcending them, and meaningful collaboration between scholars of different confessions was an exception, rather than the norm. 'Neutrality' was a fiction that obscured the ways in which scholarship served the interests of ecclesiastical and political institutions.

Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Critique et interprétation --- 22.06 <09> --- 22.06 <09> Bible: exegese-- --- 22.06 <09> Bijbel: exegese-- --- Bible: exegese-- --- Bijbel: exegese-- --- Biblia --- Book history --- History of Europe --- criticism --- anno 1600-1699 --- 11.33 Bible study and interpretation. --- Protestants --- Republic of Letters (Society). --- Bible. --- New Testament --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian --- Critique, interprétation, etc --- Histoire --- 1600-1699. --- Europe.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during the Renaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however, it confronted fundamental challenges that influenced its transition to the more public, inclusive, and vernacular discourse of the Enlightenment.

Transforming the Republic of Letters is a cultural and intellectual history that chronicles this transition to "modernity" from the perspective of the internationally renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Under Shelford's direction, Huet guides us into the intensely social intellectual world of salons, scientific academies, and literary academies, while his articulate critiques illumine a combative world of Cartesians versus anti-Cartesians, ancients versus moderns, Jesuits versus Jansenists, and salonnières versus humanist scholars. Transforming the Republic of Letters raises questions of critical importance in Huet's era, and our own, about defining, sharing, and controlling access to knowledge.

April G. Shelford is Assistant Professor in the History Department at American University, Washington, D.C.

History of civilization --- Huet, Pierre Daniel --- Huet, Pierre-Daniel, --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- 930.85 <4> --- 929 HUET, DANIEL --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Europa --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--HUET, DANIEL --- Huet, Pierre Daniel, --- Huet, Peter Daniel, --- Huetius, Petrus Daniel, --- Huet, Daniel, --- Huet, --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- -Intellectual life --- -930.85 <4> --- 929 HUET, DANIEL Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--HUET, DANIEL --- -History of civilization --- Huet, Daniel --- Huetius, Petrus Danielis --- -929 HUET, DANIEL --- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. --- Access to Knowledge. --- Cartesians. --- Cultural History. --- Early Modern Europe. --- Enlightenment. --- Intellectual Transformation. --- International Networks. --- Jesuits. --- Knowledge. --- Pierre-Daniel Huet. --- Republic of Letters. --- Salon Culture.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin American country.Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the archive, as well as their connections to transatlantic polemics on knowledge production in the New World and debates onphilosophical systems of learning. It furthermore draws upon the history of science in Mexico in order to trace the development of scientific thought and its influence on culture, religion, and fiction. This study proposes that eighteenth-century Mexican writers sought to establish a place within aglobal scholarly community for their local literary republic through the formation of scholarly networks, the historical exploration of the past and present, and the creation of new epistemological approaches to literary production inspired by Enlightenment ideas.This book invites those devoted to the study of eighteenth-century cultures to engage in an examination of a lesser-explored scholarly territory and its networks, and to think about how it was heterogeneously constructed by many-sided polemics and debates which manifested in a broad range ofliterary works.

Communication in learning and scholarship --- Mexican literature --- Enlightenment. --- Communication in learning and scholarship. --- Intellectual life. --- Mexican literature. --- Social conditions. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Republic of Letters (Society) --- 1700-1799 --- Mexico --- Mexico. --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- History and criticism --- TRL (Society) --- Respublica literaria (Society) --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Science --- Literature --- anno 1800-1899