http:\/\/cofk.history.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/romburgh_edited.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\nSophie van Romburgh<\/strong> (University of Leiden) outlines a new framework for appreciating the correspondence of the seventeenth-century philologist Francis Junius, which she edited in 2002, by turning to the closely related genre of commentary (the etymological elucidations of words and concepts in early modern source texts). Van Romburgh argues for a comparable set of \u2018discursive dynamics\u2019 between commentary and learned correspondence, and suggests that both attempted to add \u2018lustre\u2019 to objective, impersonal, abstract knowledge by embedding it within lived experience and wider networks of words, scholars, and friends. Not only does the thematic eclecticism and \u2018easy mix\u2019 of classical, biblical, and contemporary voices evident in Junius\u2019s commentaries evoke the lively, promiscuous character of intellectual correspondence, but they also combine serious etymological pursuit with personal anecdote (especially evident in his Observationes<\/em> from 1655). This connects the \u2018formal grid\u2019 of the dictionary or source text with broader \u2018constellations of knowledge and people\u2019, relating the exotic and the arcane to the familiar and the experiential, and providing an example of early modern \u2018associative rhetoric\u2019 (Roberta Frank) in action. Junius\u2019s commentaries also reference extra-textual conversations with scholar-friends, as do his letters; a powerful reminder that both commentary and correspondence existed within a voice-oriented culture (or \u2018oral story world\u2019), and superimposed a \u2018vast, living world of spoken communication, of which only some glimpses make it to paper\u2019. Cultures of Knowledge, argues van Romburgh, are created within this vast multi-dimensional space, and out of the lived practices of networks of scholar-friends (\u2018the ecology of early modern scholarship\u2019).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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