{"id":8580,"date":"2017-06-16T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T10:52:27","slug":"pierre-bayle-a-lecture-and-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=8580","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Bayle: a lecture and reception"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Oxford for a few days next week, Professor Antony McKenna<\/a>\u00a0has kindly agreed to give a talk about the decades of meticulous scholarship that have culminated this year in completion of the truly magnificent critical edition\u00a0Correspondance de Pierre Bayle<\/em><\/a>.[1. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle<\/em>, directed by \u2020Elisabeth Labrousse and Antony McKenna, in association with Wiep van Bunge, Edward James, Fabienne Vial-Bonacci, Bruno Roche, and Eric-Olivier Lochard, 15 vols (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999\u20132017).] His lecture will provide those interested in the ongoing work at\u00a0Cultures of Knowledge<\/a>\u00a0and Early Modern Letters Online [EMLO]<\/a>\u00a0with a unique opportunity to hear about the research and teamwork\u00a0underlying this edition, which\u00a0has been published in fifteen glorious volumes by the\u00a0Voltaire Foundation, Oxford<\/a>, and partially\u00a0online at the l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Jean Monnet Saint-\u00c9tienne, France<\/a>, as well as in calendar format<\/a> in\u00a0EMLO<\/a>. In addition, over the course of the months ahead, the texts of Bayle’s letters will be incorporated also into the ePistolarium<\/a> database (Huygens ING<\/a>) and Oxford\u2019s Electronic Enlightenment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pierre Bayle<\/a> (1647\u20131706), who was exiled from his native France exiled shortly before the Revocation of Edict of Nantes, played a crucial role in the development of the Republic of Letters. Together with many of his fellow Huguenots, he settled in Rotterdam,\u00a0where he\u00a0published one of the first literary periodicals, defined a new concept of religious tolerance based on moral rationalism, composed a magnificent Historical and Critical Dictionary<\/em> in which he sought to demonstrate that religious faith is incompatible with rational argument, and contributed to a new interpretation of Spinozism. Bayle\u00a0was a committed and prolific correspondent\u00a0(the edition extends to 1,791 letters). As Professor McKenna will explain, Bayle\u00a0‘regarded himself simply as a citizen of the Republic of Letters and came to represent that ideal community, “an extremely free State, in which is applied only the rule of truth and reason”.’<\/p>\n

Professor McKenna’s talk \u2014 hosted by Cultures of Knowledge<\/a> and the Voltaire Foundation<\/a> \u2014 will be delivered in the Lecture Theatre in Oxford’s History Faculty<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0will be followed by a reception. All\u00a0who are interested and find themselves in and around Oxford on Monday at 4 p.m. are most welcome to attend (although we’d appreciate a quick r.s.v.p. [dobrochna.futro@history.ox.ac.uk] if you plan to join us).\u00a0Full details may be found in the invitation below.<\/p>\n

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While in Oxford for a few days next week, Professor Antony McKenna\u00a0has kindly agreed to give a talk about the decades of meticulous scholarship that have culminated this year in completion of the truly magnificent critical edition\u00a0Correspondance de Pierre Bayle.[1. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, directed by \u2020Elisabeth Labrousse and Antony McKenna, in association with Wiep […]<\/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-8580","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\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}