期刊名称:De Zeventiende Eeuw: Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief
印刷版ISSN:0921-142X
电子版ISSN:2212-7402
出版年度:2014
卷号:30
期号:1
页码:3-19
DOI:10.18352/dze.9728
摘要:The learned letter is attracting ever more attention as a source for the pursuit of the history of knowledge, partly because correspondences are rapidly being digitized. The letter straddles the divide between a conversation and a publication. Letters could have a confidential character, but writers could also expect letters to circulate amongst associates. Harold Love's notion of 'scribal publication', with which he describes the circulation of newsletters, appears to be also applicable, to a certain extent, to the communicational situation of the personal 'familiar' letter. In this paper, the heretical ideas of the French exegete Isaac de La Peyrère serve as a case to go beyond Love in developing the notion of 'scribal publication'. We connect it to the 'culture of discussion' which was characteristic of the Dutch Republic around 1650 (Willem Frijhoff and Marijke Spies) and to the idea of civil conversation as a tolerant setting for discussion (Steven Shapin).
关键词:La Peyrère;Biblical criticism;men before Adam;correspondence;confidentiality;epistolary codes;