The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon in England. Volume 1: October 1610 to October 1611; Volume 2: November 1611 to July 1612; Volume 3: August 1612 to June 1613; Volume 4: July 1613 to June 1614

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Botley, Paul, Editor.

Vince, Máté., Editor.

Subjects (All):

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Genève Librairie Droz 2018

Summary:

À sa mort en 1614, à Londres, Isaac Casaubon était considéré par beaucoup comme l'homme le plus érudit d'Europe. Actif à Genève dans les années 1590, à Paris à partir de 1600, puis, en 1610, il accepta un poste en Angleterre auprès du roi Jacques Ier. Missionné pour s'adresser à l'Europe au nom de son nouveau mécène, il nourrit la défense de l'Église d'Angleterre contre ses détracteurs catholiques. Cette nouvelle édition exhaustive propose un texte critique des lettres conservées, depuis l'arrivée de Casaubon en Angleterre en 1610 jusqu'à sa mort en 1614, forte de 731 lettres, dont 312 inédites. Au XVIIe siècle, les premiers éditeurs censurèrent cette correspondance, passages que restituent P. Botley et M. Vince. Ces lettres nous permettent ainsi d'observer ce grand intellectuel à l'œuvre, pendant une période de sa vie remarquable où il mit ses connaissances savantes au service de la politique confessionnelle de son époque.

When Isaac Casaubon died in London in 1614 he was widely regarded as the most learned man in Europe. He worked in Geneva in the 1590s, in Paris from 1600, and in 1610 he accepted a position in England from King James I. There he was employed to speak to Europe on behalf of his new patron, and to supply intellectual substance to the ongoing defence of the English Church against its Catholic detractors. This comprehensive new edition provides a critical text of the surviving letters from Casaubon's arrival in England in 1610 until his death in 1614. It contains 731 letters, of which 312 are published here for the first time. In the seventeenth century the earliest printed collection of Casaubon's letters was silently censored, and the new edition restores a large number of previously unknown passages. These letters allow us to observe the great scholar at work during a remarkable period in his life, as he reoriented his profound learning to serve the confessional politics of his day.

ISBN:

9782600058889

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.