Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History - Oxford Talks

Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History

All Souls College Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History
Hilary Term 2017

Conveners: DR DMITRI LEVITIN and SIR NOEL MALCOLM

All sessions will be held on Mondays, 5.00–6.45pm, in the Hovenden Room; access is via the entrance to the College on the High Street – please ask at the porter’s lodge for further directions, or consult the information at www.asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-the-college. All very welcome.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: DR DMITRI LEVITIN , SIR NOEL MALCOLM
Timing: Mondays 5.00-6.45 pm
Organising department: All Souls College

Monday 16 January 2017

17:00 - What was the comparative history of religion in seventeenth-century Europe? And why did Pierre Bayle believe in virtuous atheists?’
DMITRI LEVITIN (All Souls College, Oxford)

Monday 23 January 2017

17:00 - ‘The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples, 1703–69’
FELIX WALDMANN (Christ’s College, Cambridge)

Monday 30 January 2017

17:00 - ‘Biblical typology and Protestant scholarship, from Joseph Scaliger (d. 1609) to Jean Le Clerc (d. 1736)’
NICHOLAS HARDY (University Library, Cambridge)

Monday 6 February 2017

17:00 - ‘The publication of Newton’s Opera omnia in Geneva and Lausanne (1739–1761): a chapter in the reception of Newtonianism’
TBA

Monday 13 February 2017

17:00 - Two concepts of purity: limpieza de sangre and hebraica veritas in Renaissance Spain’
THEODOR DUNKELGRÜN (CRASSH, Cambridge)

Monday 20 February 2017

17:00 - ‘The image of man in the Comte de Buffon’
CATHERINE WILSON (York and All Souls College, Oxford)

Monday 27 February 2017

17:00 - ‘The good, the bad, and the ugly: the problem of evil in early modern philosophy’
MARA VAN DER LUGT (Göttingen)

Monday 6 March 2017

17:00 - ‘What does Renaissance humanism have to do with Renaissance philosophy?’
JILL KRAYE (Warburg Institute, London)

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