{"id":7195,"date":"2016-07-30T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2016-07-31T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T09:31:28","slug":"a-ray-of-light-jakob-bohme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7195","title":{"rendered":"A ray of light: Jakob B\u00f6hme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could you\u00a0resist investigating the letters\u00a0of a shoemaker whose life was transformed\u00a0by his observation of light on\u00a0a pewter vessel? If not, you&#8217;re in luck because this week in EMLO we welcome into the union catalogue Jakob B\u00f6hme (1575\u20131624), who in 1600 underwent just such an experience in the town of G\u00f6rlitz .<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/blog\/?catalogue=jakob-boehme\" target=\"_blank\">publication of this calendar of B\u00f6hme&#8217;s correspondence<\/a>\u00a0presents us with an\u00a0opportunity to\u00a0witness the virtual reunification between the shoemaker\u00a0and his friend and supporter <a href=\"http:\/\/emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/profile\/person\/b61af4aa-ec5d-423a-a625-2ef39fc858ba\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham von Franckenberg<\/a>, whose own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/blog\/?catalogue=abraham-von-franckenberg\" target=\"_blank\">correspondence calendar<\/a> was published in the union catalogue last year. Von Franckenberg, a\u00a0Silesian nobleman, took up B\u00f6hme&#8217;s cause and wrote the biography that provides\u00a0the details of this particular\u00a0enlightening experience. The calendar of B\u00f6hme&#8217;s correspondence in EMLO will be supplemented further \u2014 with existing records updated and new letters added\u00a0\u2014 over the next few\u00a0months. What you find in place at present\u00a0has been taken from the letters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-rara.ch\/cgj\/content\/titleinfo\/1477187\" target=\"_blank\">collected in an epistolary of 1730<\/a>, the metadata for which are to be found also\u00a0in the inestimable\u00a0inventory compiled by Monika Estermann and published\u00a0in Wiesbaden in 1993. We hope very much what you encounter\u00a0in EMLO is useful and enlightening (although perhaps not in the pewter bowl sense) and that you&#8217;ll keep an eye on Jakob B\u00f6hme from this point forward as his\u00a0catalogue expands.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7204\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7204\" class=\"wp-image-7204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/B\u00f6hme_Philosophische_Kugel.jpg\" alt=\"B\u00f6hme_Philosophische_Kugel\" width=\"300\" height=\"359\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jakob Boehme: Representation of his Cosmogony in &#8216;Vierzig Fragen von der Seele&#8217; or Forty Questions of the Soul (1620). (Source of image: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you\u00a0resist investigating the letters\u00a0of a shoemaker whose life was transformed\u00a0by his observation of light on\u00a0a pewter vessel? If not, you&#8217;re in luck because this week in EMLO we welcome into the union catalogue Jakob B\u00f6hme (1575\u20131624), who in 1600 underwent just such an experience in the town of G\u00f6rlitz . The\u00a0publication of this calendar [&hellip;]<\/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-7195","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\/7195","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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}