Location
Hovenden Room, All Souls College
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 https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-the-college. All very welcome.
16 January: Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford), ‘What was the comparative history of religion in seventeenth-century Europe? And why did Pierre Bayle believe in virtuous atheists?’
23 January: Felix Waldmann (Christ’s College, Cambridge), ‘The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples, 1703–69’
30 January: Nicholas Hardy (University Library, Cambridge), ‘Biblical typology and Protestant scholarship, from Joseph Scaliger (d. 1609) to Jean Le Clerc (d. 1736)’
6 February: Niccolò Guicciardini (Bergamo), ‘The publication of Newton’s Opera omnia in Geneva and Lausanne (1739–1761): a chapter in the reception of Newtonianism’
13 February: Theodor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH, Cambridge), ‘Two concepts of purity: limpieza de sangre and hebraica veritas in Renaissance Spain’
20 February: Catherine Wilson (York and All Souls College, Oxford), ‘The image of man in the Comte de Buffon’
27 February: Mara van der Lugt (Göttingen), ‘The good, the bad, and the ugly: the problem of evil in early modern philosophy’
6 March: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute, London), ‘What does Renaissance humanism have to do with Renaissance philosophy?’