Circulating Ideas in 17th Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge, Forms

‘Circulating Ideas in 17th Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge, Forms’
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London
Thursday 8 – Saturday 10 July, 2010
 
The seventeenth century in Europe was an age of turmoil. Wars, revolutions, and exploration constantly redrew the boundaries of the physical world.  But equally important was the turmoil of new ideas that redrew the boundaries of the intellectual world. In poetry and in polemics, men and women involved in philosophy, theology, politics, and science created a dynamic knowledge economy. If ideas were the currency of this economy, how did these writers, thinkers, and agents choose the forms in which that currency should circulate? This conference takes up that question, investigating the relationship between the circulation of ideas and the forms in which they circulated.
 
Plenary speakers: Mark Greengrass, Margaret Ezell and Richard Serjeantson
 
Registration for this conference is now open. A list of abstracts, programme and registration form can be downloaded from the conference website at royalsociety.org/circulating-ideas.
 
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