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This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These communities formed through distinct memory cultures and the representation of and identification with collective identities. Rethinking the Republic of Letters looks at early modern biographical dictionaries (vitae), eulogies, letters, travelogues, and funerary monuments of early modern learned men to trace the (re)formation of these communities. It thereby offers a novel perspective on early modern learned communities – the many Republics of Letters.

Koen Scholten is a historian of science and published on memory and identity in scholarly and scientific communities. He edited Memory and Identity in the Learned World (Brill, 2022) and received his PhD from Utrecht University on a thesis on the formation of early modern communities in the world of learning in 2023.

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048559855/rethinking-the-republic-of-letters

Dit is de eerste kritische editie van de brieven van de dichter, redenaar en historicus Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613) en bevat 463 brieven, waarvan vele nooit eerder zijn gepubliceerd. De correspondentie van Baudius werd maar liefst veertien keer gedrukt tussen 1615 en 1662 en is daarmee een van de meest gedrukte en gelezen brievenverzamelingen van de zeventiende eeuw. Vanwege Baudius’ openhartigheid werden zijn brieven echter in hoge mate gecensureerd. Deze editie herstelt vele gecensureerde passages, maar bevat ook de tekstuele interventies, omissies en conjecturen van zeventiende-eeuwse editeurs in het tekstkritisch apparaat. Driekwart van de passages die in de eerste editie van 1615 werden gecensureerd, is in deze nieuwe editie zodoende in de oorspronkelijke staat hersteld en voor de overige passages worden beredeneerde suggesties gedaan voor wat ontbreekt. Deze editie heeft op deze wijze van een verwarrende en vaak misleidende verzameling brieven een betrouwbare en essentiële bron gemaakt voor de studie van de literaire, religieuze en intellectuele cultuur van de Republiek en Noordwest Europa.

Voor meer informatie, zee: Librairie Droz (Europe)  en: Baudius’ Letters .

Leuven University Press has published the volume Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy.

Written by a diverse group of specialists from across Europe and the US, this book explores the various technical and practical aspects involved in reading, interpreting, and editing student notes, while also demonstrating how these sources can enrich various areas of historical research.

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Studies and Texts 234; Judaism in the Medieval and Early Modern World 4 • xxvi, 554 pp. plus 8 colour plates • ISBN 978-0-88844-234-5 • Cloth • $150

This is the first book-length study of how the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568–1573) was made. The Antwerp Polyglot has long been recognized as one of the most ambitious typographical enterprises of the sixteenth century. Upon completion, it was the most elaborate Bible ever printed, a library of biblical erudition with editions of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin versions together with new scholarly instruments necessary to study and compare them. Yet powerful contemporaries also perceived it as a threat to the Church.

The very idea of a polyglot bible, especially one that included the Hebrew Bible and Aramaic Targums of Jewish tradition, ran counter to the Council of Trent’s decree that the Latin Vulgate was the only authentic version of Christian Scripture. In the middle of the sixteenth century, biblical philology and Catholic orthodoxy turned onto a frightful course of collision, and the pages of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible formed the force field at their crossroads.

Combining the history of the book with the history of scholarship and drawing on primary sources from archives and libraries across Europe, The Multiplicity of Scripture reconstructs the editorial history of Christopher Plantin’s masterpiece from within his printing shop. Set in the contexts of fierce biblical controversies in Tridentine Europe and the fraught afterlife of Jewish traditions in post-expulsion Spain, it tells a story of crisis and craftsmanship, of ink-stained proofs in four different alphabets and the extraordinary team of scholars and printers that made this monument of Renaissance printing and scholarly endeavour.

For more information, see https://pims.ca/publication/isbn-978-0-88844-234-5/

Onlangs publiceerde Richard Calis (Universiteit Utrecht) zijn boek over Martin Crusius. The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius beschrijft hoe een classicus die zijn geboortestad Tübingen nooit verliet, desondanks de toonaangevende eigentijdse expert werd op het gebied van Ottomaans Griekenland.

Voor meer informatie, zie: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674292734

Nieuwe editie van Erasmus, De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione dialogus, uitgegeven door Christine Bénévent, Geneviève Clerico, Bernard Colombat en Colette Nativel, vertaald door Jacques Chomarat. Informatie via de uitgever: https://www.droz.org/europe/product/9782600065412

https://www.lysapublishers.com/book/in-confinio-duorum-populorum/40