Networking Early Modern Correspondence

Intellectual Geography Conference Videos Now Available

Over twenty talks exploring the spatial dimensions of early modern intellectual life.

Early Modern Letters Online Beta Launch Event

A festive reception marking the first public release of our correspondence catalogue.

Surf Report: CofK Featured in Times Higher Education

Project one of several featured in a major overview of the digital humanities.

Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700

Find out more about our second conference, held in September 2011.

Martin Lister Biography Published

An exciting new monograph from our Martin Lister Research Fellow.

Visualizing and Navigating the Republic of Letters

Scott Weingart from Indiana University spends a week with the team.

Seminar Podcasts Now Available!

Listen again to correspondence-related talks from our previous two seminar series.

CofK Presents John Selden’s Correspondence

Transcriptions of the polymath's letters now available on the Project website.

Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks, 1560-1670

Find out more about our inaugural conference, held in September 2010.

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Bringing together experts in history, philosophy, science, and literature with librarians, archivists, and systems developers, Cultures of Knowledge is seeking to transform engagement with early modern letters through three interconnected strands of activity:

Research Projects

A set of seven discrete but overlapping research and editorial case studies focussing on the epistolary activities and legacies of some key figures in early modern science.

Infrastructure

The creation of new digital systems capable of organising metadata and other resources generated by these projects into a union catalogue and archive of early modern correspondence.

Events

International meetings designed to forge new conceptual frameworks for letters and cultivate a scholarly community coextensive with the seventeenth-century networks under study.

The ultimate objective of Cultures of Knowledge is to use the intellectual networks and epistolary cultures of the seventeenth century as a means of connecting transnational interdisciplinary research across the broad field of early modern intellectual history.