Networking Early Modern Correspondence

A ‘Hasty Blotted Scribble’: New Boyle Original Discovered

An exciting archival discovery for our John Wallis Research Fellow.

Journal Special Issue: Natural History, Medicine, and New Science

Notes and Records of the Royal Society guest-edited by CofK Fellow now online.

Epistolary Cultures in the Early Modern World

Find out more about our latest conference, held in September 2012.

Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger Published

Launch of eight volume critical edition celebrated at our latest conference.

Cultures of Knowledge Receives Further Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation extends its support of our activities.

The English Atlantic, Kenelm Digby, and John Evelyn

Find out more about, and listen to, the final three papers in our seminar series.

The Correspondence of John Wallis: Introducing Volume III

Latest installment of the prestigious OUP edition now available to pre-order.

Intellectual Geography Conference Videos Now Available

Over twenty talks exploring the spatial aspects of early modern intellectual life.

Early Modern Letters Online Beta Launch Event

A reception marking the first public release of our correspondence catalogue.

Martin Lister Biography Published

An exciting new monograph from our Martin Lister Research Fellow.

Visualizing and Navigating the Republic of Letters

Scott Weingart from Indiana University spends a week with the team.

CofK Presents John Selden’s Correspondence

Transcriptions of the polymath's letters now available on the Project website.

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Bringing together experts in history, philosophy, science, and literature with librarians, archivists, and systems developers, Cultures of Knowledge is transforming engagement with early modern letters across three interconnected strands of activity:

Research Projects

A set of seven discrete but overlapping research and editorial case studies focussing on the epistolary activities and legacies of some key figures in early modern science.

Infrastructure

The creation of new digital systems capable of organising metadata and other resources generated by these projects into a union catalogue and archive of early modern correspondence.

Events

Inspiring academic meetings designed to forge new conceptual frameworks for letters and build a research community coextensive with the networks under investigation.

The ultimate objective of Cultures of Knowledge is to use the intellectual networks and epistolary cultures of the seventeenth century as a means of connecting transnational interdisciplinary research across the broad field of early modern intellectual history.