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The Correspondence of John Selden (1584-1654)

 

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Select Republic of Letters Bibliography

This list of secondary texts is not comprehensive and serves merely as an introduction to and representative overview of the kind of work being pursued across this lively early modern field. The emphasis throughout is on learned correspondence and general or methodological studies. Other really useful epistolary biographies have been created by Josephus Justus Scaliger (1540–1609): Edition of the Correspondence and – with a tighter geographical focus on early modern English letters but a much broader thematic range – by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon (pdf). A list of primary correspondence editions can be consulted on our old website.

A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y

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B

  • Baar, Mirjam de, “Ik moet spreken”: het spiritueel leiderschap van Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680) (Zutphen: Walburg, 2004).
  • Baron, Sabrina A., ‘The Guises of Dissemination in Early Seventeenth-Century England: News in Manuscript and Print’, in Brendan Dooley and Sabrina A. Baron, eds, The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2001), 41–56.
  • Bartlett, Kenneth R. and Margaret McGlynn, eds, Humanism and the Northern Renaissance (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000), chapters 6, 8, 26, 28, and 32.
  • Bearman, Peter, James Moody, and Robert Faris, ‘Networks and History’, Complexity 8:1 (2002), 61–71.
  • Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves, ed., La plume et la toile. Pouvoirs et réseaux de correspondance dans l’Europe des Lumières, Collection ‘Histoire’ (Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2002).
  • Bepler, Jill, ‘Herzog August and the Hartlib Circle’, in Hedwig Schmidt- Glintzer et al., A Treasure House of Books: The Library of Duke August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel [Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek. no. 75] (Wiesbaden. Harrassowitz. 1998), 165-72.
  • Berg, Wim van den, ‘Briefreflectie en briefinstructie’, Documentatieblad werkgroep 18e eeuw 38 (1978), 1–22.
  • Berkvens-Stevelinck, Christiane, Hans Bots, and Jens Haeseler, eds, Les grands intermédiaires culturels de la République des Lettres, Etudes de réseaux de correspondances du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles (Paris: Editions Honoré Champion 2005).
  • Bethencourt, Francisco and Florike Egmond, ‘Introduction’, in idem, eds, Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400–1700 (Cambridge: CUP, 2006-07).
  • Beugnot, B., ‘Débats autour du genre épistolair. Realité et écriture’, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 74 (1974), 195–202.
  • Blair, Ann M., Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
  • Bossis, Mireille, ‘Methodological Journeys Through Correspondences’, Yale French Studies 71 (1986), 63–75.
  • Bots, Hans and Françoise Waquet, eds, Commercium Litterarium, 1600–1750. La communication dans la République des Lettres (Amsterdam and Maarssen: APA-Holland University Press, 1994).
  • Bots, Hans and Françoise Waquet, La République des Lettres, Europe et histoire (Paris and Belin: De Boeck, 1997).
  • Bots, J. A., Republiek der Letteren. Ideaal en werkelijkheid (Amsterdam: APA-Holland Universiteits Pers, 1977).
  • Boutier, J., ed., Etienne Baluze, 1630–1718. Erudition et pouvoirs dans l’Europe classique (Limoges: Pulim, 2008).
  • Bracke, Walter, Fare la Epistolae, nella Roma del Quattrocentro (Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 1992).
  • Brant, Clare, Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
  • Bray, Bernard, ‘L’Enquête des Correspondences’, in Le XVIIe siècle et la recherche: actes du 6ème colloque de Marseille (Marseille: Centre Méridional de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, 1976), 65–78.
  • Bray, Bernard, ‘La louange, exigence de civilité et pratique épistolaire au XVIIème siècle’, XVIIe siècle 42 (1990), 135–53.
  • Brayshay, Mark, Philip Harrison, and Brian Chalkley, ‘Knowledge, Nationhood and Governance: The Speed of the Royal Post in Early-Modern England’, Journal of Historical Geography 24 (1998), 265–88.
  • Brockliss, Laurence, Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • Bürgel, Peter, ‘Der Privatbrief. Entwurf eines heuristischen Modells’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 50 (1976), 281–97.

C

  • Chambers, Douglas, ‘“Excuse These Impertinences”: Evelyn in his Letterbooks’ in Frances Harris and Michael Hunter, eds, John Evelyn and His Milieu (London: British Library, 2003), 21–36.
  • Chartier, Roger, Boureau, Alain and Dauphin, Cecile, Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Polity, 1997).
  • Clough, Cecil H., ‘The Cult of Antiquity: Letters and Letter Collections’, in Cecil H. Clough, ed., Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance (Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Alfred F. Zambelli, 1976), 33–67.
  • Conde Salazar, Matilde, ‘La literatura epistolar como fuente historiográfica’, in Maurilio Pérez González, ed., Congreso internacional sobre Humanismo y Renacimiento, vol. I (León: Universidad de León-Secretariado de Publicaciones, 1998), 255–62.
  • Constable, G., Letters and Letter-Collections (Turnhout: Brepols, 1976).
  • Couchman, Jane, and Anne Crabb, eds, Women’s Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
  • Cressy, David, Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Cugusi, P., Evoluzione e forme dell’epistolografia latina. nella tarda Repubblica e nei primi due secoli dell’ impero (Roma: Herder, 1983).

D

  • Dalton, Susan, Engendering the Republic of Letters: Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003).
  • Daston, L., ‘The Ideal and the Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment’, Science in Context 4 (1991), 367–86.
  • Daybell, James, Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • Daybell, James, ‘Material Meanings and the Social Signs of Manuscript Letters in Early Modern England’, Literature Compass 6 (2009), 1–21.
  • Daybell, James, The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).
  • Daybell, James, and Andrew Gordon, eds, ‘New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Correspondence’, special issue of Lives & Letters 4:1 (2012).
  • Daumas, M., ‘Manuels épistolaires et identité sociale (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 40:4 (1993), 529–56.
  • Dibon, Paul, ‘Les échanges épistolaires dans l’Europe savante du XVIIe siècle’, Revue de synthèse 81–82 (1976), 31–50.
  • Dibon, Paul, ‘Communication in the Respublica Literaria of the Seventeenth Century’, Res Publica Literarum: Studies in the Classical Tradition 1 (1978), 43–55.
  • Dibon, Paul, ‘Les avatars d’une édition de correspondance: les Epistolae I. Casauboni de 1638’, Nouvelles de la République des Lettres 2 (1982), 25–63.
  • Dibon, Paul, ‘Communication épistolaire et mouvement des idées au XVIIe siècle’, Regards sur la Hollande du siècle d’or (Naples: Vivarium, 1990), 171–90.
  • Dooley, Brendan and Sabrina Baron, eds, The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2001).
  • Doty, W.G., ‘The Classificatin of Epistolary Literature’, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 31 (1969), 183–69.

E

F

G

H

  • Hall, Marie Boas, ‘Oldenburg and the Role of Scientific Communication’, BJHS, 2 (1965), 277–90.
  • Hall, Marie Boas, ‘The Royal Society’s Role in the Diffusion of Information in the Seventeenth Century’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 29 (1975), 173–92.
  • Hall, Marie Boas, Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society (Oxford: OUP, 2002).
  • Haroche-Bouzinac, G., ‘Quelques métaphores de la lettre dans la théorie épistolaire au XVIIe siècle; flèche, miroir, conversation’, XVIIe Siècle 43 (1991), 243–57.
  • Harth, Helene, ‘Poggio Bracciolini und die Brieftheorie des 15. Jahrhunderts. Zur Gattungsform des humanistischen Briefs’, in F. J. Worstbrock, ed., Der Brief im Zeitalter der Renaissance, Mitteilung IX der Kommission für Humanismusforschung (Weinheim: Acta humaniora der Verlag Chemie GmbH, 1983), 81–99.
  • Henderson, Judith Rice, ‘Erasmus’s Opus de conscribendis epistolis in Sixteenth-Century Schools’, in Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell (eds), Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographical Studies (Columbia, SC: Univeristy of South Carolina Press, 2007), 141–77.
  • Henderson, Judith Rice, ‘Erasmus on the Art of Letter-Writing’, in James J. Murphy (ed.), Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric (Berkeley: California University Press, 1983), 331–55.
  • Henderson, Judith Rice, ‘On Reading the Rhetoric of the Renaissance Letter’, in Heinrich F. Plett (ed.), Renaissance-Rhetorik/Renaissance Rhetoric (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993), 143–62.
  • Henry, J., ‘The Origins of Modern Science: Henry Oldenburg’s Contribution’, British Journal for the History of Science 21 (1988), 103–10.
  • Hess, Ursula, ‘Die Frau als Briefpartnerin von Humanisten, am Beispiel der Caritas Pirckheimer’, in Der Brief im Zeitalter der Renaissance, Mitteilung IX der Kommission für Humanismusforschung (Weinheim: Acta humaniora der Verlag Chemie GmbH, 1983).
  • Hirstein, James, ‘La correspondance de Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547), une nouvelle lettre (et un nouveau livre) et les débuts de l’imprimeur Matthias Schürer à Strassbourg en 1508’, in Antiquité et Humanisme de Tertullien à Beatus Rhenanus. Mélanges offertes à François Heim (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 457–93.
  • Hoftijzer, P. G., O. S. Lankhorst, and H. J. M. Nellen, eds, Papieren betrekkingen. Zevenentwintig brieven uit de vroegmoderne tijd (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2005).
  • Hotson, Howard, ‘Johann Heinrich Alsted’s Relations with Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia: Patronage, Piety and Pansophia.’ in Acta Comeniana,12 (1997), 13–35.
  • Hotson, Howard, ‘Leibniz’s Network’, in Maria Rosa Antognazza, ed, The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).
  • Howe, James, Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’ (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).
  • Hunter, Lynette, ‘Sisters of the Royal Society: The Circle of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh’ in Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, Science and Medicine, 1500-1700 (Thrupp: Sutton, 1997), 178–97.
  • Hunter, Michael, Establishing the New Science (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1989).

I

  • IJsewijn, Jozef, ‘Marcus Antonius Muretus epistolographus’, in La correspondance d’Érasme et l’épistolographie humaniste. Colloque international tenu en novembre 1983 (Brussels: Université libre de Bruxelles, 1985).

J

  • Jacob, Margaret, Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
  • Jaitner, Klaus, Kaspar Schoppe: Autobiographische Texte und Briefe, Bayerische Gelehrtenkorrespondenz 2:2 (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004–12).
  • Jardine, Lisa, Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
  • Jardine, Lisa, ‘Penfriends and Patria: Erasmian Pedagogy and the Republic of Letters’, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 16 (1996), 1–18.
  • Jardine, Lisa, ‘Before Clarissa: Erasmus, “Letters of Obscure Men”, and Epistolary Fictions’, in Toon Van Houdt et al., eds, Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002), 385–403.
  • Jaumann, Herbert, ed., Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter des Konfessionalismus, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 96 (Wiesbaden: Harrosowitz, 2001).

L

M

N

  • Nellen, Henk, ‘Editing Seventeenth-Century Scholarly Correspondence: Grotius, Huygens and Mersenne’, LIAS 17:1 (1990), 9–20.
  • Nellen, J. M., ‘La correspondance savante au XVIIe siècle’, XVIIe siècle 45 (1993), 87–97.
  • Nevalainen, Terttu, and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, ‘Letter Writing’, Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004), 181–336.
  • Norbrook, David, ‘Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, Criticism 46:2 (2004), 223–40.

O

  • Ollion, H., Notes sur la correspondance de John Locke, suivies de trente-deux lettres inédites de Locke à Thoynard (1678–1681) (Paris: A. Picard & fils, 1908).
  • Ophir, A., and S. Shapin, ‘The Place of Knowledge: A Methodological Survey’, Science in Context 4 (1991), 3–21.
  • Ortner-Buchberger, Claudia, Briefe schreiben im 16. Jahrhundert. Formen und Funktionen des epistolaren Diskurses in den italienischen libri di lettere (Munich: Fink, 2003).
  • Overfield, James H., ‘A New Look at the Reuchlin Affair’, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 8 (1971), 165–207.

P

Q

  • Quondam, A., Le carte messaggiere: retorica e modelli di communicazione epistolare (Rome: Bulzoni, 1981).

R

  • Rice-Henderson, Judith, ‘Defining the Genre of the Letter: Juan Luis Vives’ De conscribendis epistolis’, Renaissance and Reformation 7 (1983), 98–105.
  • Rice-Henderson, Judith, ‘Erasmus on the Art of Letter Writing’, in James J. Murphy, ed., Renaissance Eloquence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 331–55.
  • Rice-Henderson, Judith, ‘On Reading the Rhetoric of the Renaissance Letter’, in Heinrich F. Plett, ed., Renaissance Rhetoric (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1993), 143–62.
  • Rice-Henderson, Judith, ‘Humanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum?’, in Toon Van Houdt et al., eds, Self-Presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002), 17–38.
  • Robertson, Jean, The Art of Letter-Writing: An Essay on the Handbooks Published in England During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1942).
  • Rochot, Bernard, ‘Le P. Mersenne et les relations intellectuelles dans l’Europe du XVIIe siècle’, Cahiers d’histoire mondiale 10 (1967), 55–73.
  • Roig Miranda, M. ed., La Transmission du savoir dans l’Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Actes du colloque du 20 au 22 novembre 1997 organisé par l’Université Nancy II (Paris: Champion, 2000).
  • Rozbicki, Michal, ‘Between East-Central Europe and Britain: Reformation and Science as Vehicles of Intellectual Communication in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, East European Quarterly 30 (1997), 401–16.
  • Rummel, Erika, ‘The Use of Greek in Erasmus’ Letters’, Humanistica Lovaniensia 30 (1981), 55–92.
  • Rummel, Erika, ‘Erasmus’ Manual of Letter-Writing: Tradition and Innovation’, Renaissance and Reformation 25:3 (1989), 299–312.

S

  • Sarasohn, Lisa, ‘Peiresc and the Patronage of the New Science in the Seventeenth Century’, Isis 84 (1993), 70–90.
  • Schneider, Gary, ‘Affecting Correspondences: Body, Behavior, and the Textualization of Emotion in Early Modern English Letters’, Prose Studies 23 (2000), 31–62.
  • Schneider, Gary, Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005).
  • Schmidt, Irmtraud, ‘Was ist ein Brief?’ Zur Begriffsbestimmung des Terminus “Brief” als Bezeichnung einer quellenkundlichen Gattung’, in W. Woestler, ed., Editio. Internationales Jahrbuch für Editionswissenschaft 2 (1988), 1–7.
  • Schmidt, Peter L., ‘Die Rezeption des römischen Freundschaftsbriefes (Cicero-Plinius) im frühen Humanismus (Petrarca-Coluccio Salutati)’, in F.J. Worstbrock, ed., Der Brief im Zeitalter der Renaissance, Mitteilung IX der Kommission für Humanismusforschung (Weinheim: Acta humaniora der Verlag Chemie GmbH, 1983), 25–59.
  • Schnalke, Thomas, ‘Wissensorganisation und Wissenskommunikation im 18. Jahrhundert: Christoph Jacob Trew’, EGO: European History Online (2010).
  • Schneider, Ulrich Johannes, ed., Kultur der Kommunikation. Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter von Leibniz und Lessing, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 109 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005).
  • Schutte, Anne Jacobson, ‘The Lettere Volgari and the Crisis of Evangelism in Italy’, Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1975), 639–77.
  • Shelford, April G.Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007).
  • Smolak, K., ‘De conscribendis epistolis van Erasmus’, preface to W. Welzig, ed., Erasmus von Rotterdam. Ausgewählte Schriften (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftlichen Buchgesellschaft, 1980).
  • Solomon, Howard M., Public Welfare, Science, and Propaganda in Seventeenth Century France: The Innovations of Théophraste Renaudot (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972).
  • Soll, Jacob, The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011).
  • Stegeman, Saskia, ‘How to Set Up a Scholarly Correspondence: Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen (1657–1712) Aspires to Membership of the Republic of Letters’, LIAS 20 (1993), 227–43.
  • Stegeman, Saskia, Patronage and Services in the Republic of Letters: The Network of Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen (1657–1712) (Amsterdam: APA-Holland University Press, 2005).
  • Steinke, Hubert, ‘Gelehrtenkorrespondenznetzwerke des 18. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel von Albrecht von Haller’, EGO: European History Online (2010).
  • Stewart, Alan, and Heather Wolfe, Letterwriting in Renaissance England (Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004).
  • Suárez de la Torre, E., ‘”Ars epistolica” La preceptiva epistolográfica y sus relaciones con la retórica’, in G. Morocho Gayo, ed., Estudios de drama y retórica en Grecia y Roma (León: Universidad de León, 1978), 177–204.

T

  • Tantner, Anton, Early Modern ‘Registry Offices’ as Employment Agencies (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut d’etudes europeennes, 2008).
  • Tateo, Francesco, ‘La questione dello stile nell’epistolografia: L’alternativa umanistica’, in Ute Ecker et al., eds, Saeculum tamquam aureum: Internationales Symposion zur italienischen Renaissance des 14.–16. Jahrhunderts (Hildesheim 1997), 219–31.
  • Thompson, Elbert N. S., ‘Familiar Letters’, in Literary Bypaths of the Renaissance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1924), 91–126.
  • Thraede, Klaus, Grundzüge griechisch-römischer Brieftopik (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1970).
  • Trueba Lawand, James, El arte epistolar del Renacimiento español (Madrid and Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1996).

U

  • Ultee, Maarten, ‘The Republic of Letters: Learned Correspondence 1680–1720’, The Seventeenth Century 2 (1987), 95–112.
  • Urbánek, Vladimír, ‘The Network of Comenius’ Correspondents’, Acta Comeniana 12 (1997), 63–78.

V

  • Vaillancourt, Luc, La lettre familière au XVIe siècle. Rhétorique humaniste de l’épistolaire (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003).
  • Van Dixhoorn, Arjan, and Susie Speakman Sutch, eds, The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill, 2008).
  • Viola, Corrado, ed., Le carte vive. Epistolari e carteggi nel Settecento. Atti del primo Convegno internazionale di studi del Centro di Ricerca sugli Epistolari del Settecento, Verona, 4–6 dicembre 2008, Biblioteca del XVIII secolo 16 (Roma: Le Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011).
  • Violi, P., ‘Letters’, in T. A. van Dijk, ed., Discourse and Literature (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 1985).
  • Viskolcz, Noémi, Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605–1655) Bibliográfia (Budapest and Szeged: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, 2003).
  • Vivo, Fillipo de, Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

W

  • Walker, Sue, ‘The Manners on the Page: Prescription and Practice in the Visual Organisation of Correspondence’, Huntington Library Quarterly 66:3&4 (2003), 307–29.
  • Wallnig, Thomas, ‘Gelehrtenkorrespondenzen und Gelehrtenbriefe’, in Josef Pauser, Martin Scheutz, and Thomas Winkelbauer, eds, Quellenkunde der Habsburgermonarchie (16.–18. Jahrhundert). Ein exemplarisches Handbuch, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungsband 44 (Vienna and Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2003), 813–27.
  • Walter, Axel E., Späthumanismus und Konfessionspolitik. Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik um 1600 im Spiegel der Korrespondenzen Georg Michael Lingelsheims (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004).
  • Waquet, Françoise, ‘Qu’est-ce que la République des Lettres? Essai de sémantique historique’, Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartres 147 (1989), 473–502.
  • Waquet, Françoise, ‘Les éditions de correspondances savantes et les idéaux de la République des lettres’, Dix-septième siècle 45 (1993), 99–118.
  • Waquet, Françoise, ed., Mapping the World of Learning: The Polyhistor of Daniel Georg Morhof, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 91 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000).
  • Whyman, Susan E., The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers, 1660–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Winterer, Caroline, ‘Where Is America in the Republic of Letters?’, Modern Intellectual History 9:3 (2012), 597–623.
  • Worstbrock, F. J., ed., Der Brief im Zeitalter der Renaissance, Mitteilung IX der Kommission für Humanismusforschung (Weinheim: Acta humaniora der Verlag Chemie GmbH, 1983).

Y

  • Young, John T., Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (Aldershot: Ashgate, November 1998).