COK conference: Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700

The second international Cultures of Knowledge conference, held at St. Anne’s College, 5 – 7 September 2011, addressed spatial dimensions of intellectual history. The papers ranged across and beyond Europe, through and beyond the seventeenth century. Presentations were given from two projects exploring the temporal and spatial representations of  correspondence networks in the early modern period: Mapping the Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.