Nettoyer l’etude de la poussiere
Debating Cultures and Publication Strategies in the Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot
by Isabelle Fellner
While any conceivable piece of information is only one click away for inhabitants of the 21st century, such was not the lot of our 17th century counterparts. Theophraste Renaudot’s establishment of a Bureau d’adresse, a place dedicated to the exchange of knowledge, therefore addressed a dire need, and captured the interest of other European “intelligencers”. The Parisian Bureau not only functioned as an entrepot for practical information but also housed the Conferences, Renaudot’s academy. The Conferences aimed at no lesser goal than to vulgarize knowledge for as large an audience as possible and to brush off the dust it had supposedly acquired in scholastic university: hence the title of the present study, nettoyer l’etude de la poussiere. This volume analyzes the Conferences and their printed records and connects them to other early modern modes of knowledge negotiation from the perspective of a transdisciplinary history of knowledge. It argues that on an individual level, the various participants of the Conferences did not radically break with dialectical and rhetorical traditions; yet the printed records of their meetings did present knowledge in a new medial form that epitomizes fundamental trends in the contemporary Republic of Letters.
- By (author) Isabelle Fellner
Other Titles in this Series
Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions
Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Universite / Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Paris
Volume 8
Facetten der experientia
Zum Rekurs auf Erfahrung und Erfahrungswissen in der fruhneuzeitlichen Romania
Volume 28
Mirabiles Wissen
Deutschsprachige Reiseerzahlungen um 1200 im transkulturellen Kontext arabischer Literatur. Strassburger Alexander, Herzog Ernst, Reise-Fassung des Brandan
Volume 22
Fremdsprachenlehrwerke in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Perspektiven - Potentiale - Herausforderungen
Volume 24
Boethius’ Ubersetzungsprojekt
Philosophische Grundlagen und didaktische Methoden eines spatantiken Wissenstransfers
Volume 6
Gesprache uber Haus und Familie
Dynamiken des okonomischen Diskurses im italienischen Dialog der Renaissance: von Alberti bis Tasso
Volume 32
Kunstvolle Verse
Stil- und Versreformen um 1600 und die Entstehung einer deutschsprachigen 'Kunstdichtung'
Similar Books
Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Volume 3
Circulation, Use, Impact
The Consumption of Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
Volume 1
Naples as Laboratory / Laboratorium Neapel
Style Options, Artistic Rivalry and Self Fashioning in Neapolitan Baroque Painting / Plurale Stilbildung, Kunstlerkonkurrenz und Self Fashioning in der neapolitanischen Barockmalerei
Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300-1600)
Volume 10
Art and Mysticism in Silesia in the Baroque period
Angelus Silesius, Bernhard Rosa, and Michael Willmann
Volume 9
Building the Presence of the Prince
The Institutions Responsible for the Construction and Management of the Buildings of European Courts (14th-17th centuries)
Volume 14
Burgeoning European Print Trade
The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp
Volume 19
From Europe to Overseas
Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Models and Soft Power in an Early Modern Global Perspective
Jheronimus Bosch, Conservation and Restoration
From Former Glory to Changing Appearances (Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Images)
L’amore, le armi, le stelle
Basinio da Parma and the Humanists at Sigismondo Malatesta's Court
Volume 6
Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660–1830
Management – Professionalisation – Shortcomings
