{"id":7108,"date":"2016-06-20T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2016-06-20T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:36:19","slug":"letters-in-the-digital-age-and-richard-dutch-thomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7108","title":{"rendered":"‘Letters in the Digital Age’ and Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thomson\"In a week during which the editing of scholarly correspondence rises to the fore in Oxford, EMLO is delighted to announce publication of a catalogue of the correspondence of Richard Thomson<\/a>. Best known as a translator of the Bible and as an early Arminian, ‘Dutch’ Thomson (as he tends to be known) was admired widely during his lifetime for his learning and scholarship. Active in the decades surrounding\u00a01600 \u2014 he died in 1613 \u2014 he was a correspondent and friend of both Joseph Justus Scaliger<\/a> and Isaac Casaubon, and he travelled extensively\u00a0to work with manuscripts in Europe’s\u00a0great early modern libraries.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the first biography of Thomson<\/a>, written by Paul Botley (one of the editors of the impressive eight-volume Scaliger edition<\/a> brought out by Librarie Droz<\/a> in 2012) was published by Brill<\/a>\u00a0together with Thomson’s surviving correspondence of seventy-eight letters. Dr Botley has contributed a calendar of the\u00a0correspondence to EMLO where it joins the catalogue of Scaliger’s correspondence and will, in the years to come, sit alongside that of Casaubon.<\/p>\n

Correspondence editions\u00a0are\u00a0the focus of a one-day student-organized conference to be held in the Bodleian’s new Weston Library tomorrow (Tuesday, 21 June). Entitled\u00a0Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age<\/em>, the conference includes\u00a0discussions between intellectual historians (including our own Project Director, Howard Hotson) and scholarly editors, presentations\u00a0by curators of the Bodleian’s Special Collections, and a panel session bringing together representatives from\u00a0Oxford University Press and Blackwell’s bookshop. Should you be interested in attending, a full schedule and details regarding registration may be found here<\/a>. EMLO will be present\u00a0and I look forward greatly to recreating\u00a0the journey metadata takes from a manuscript in the Bodleian’s Special Collections all the way through to our rapidly expanding catalogue of correspondence as we try\u00a0to define and map the shape and constituent parts of the ‘respublica litteraria’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a week during which the editing of scholarly correspondence rises to the fore in Oxford, EMLO is delighted to announce publication of a catalogue of the correspondence of Richard Thomson. Best known as a translator of the Bible and as an early Arminian, ‘Dutch’ Thomson (as he tends to be known) was admired widely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}