Nomôdos: Colloque "J. Selden (1584-1654): Scholarship in Context", Magdalen College, Oxford, 24-26 June 2010

19 avr. 2010

Colloque "J. Selden (1584-1654): Scholarship in Context", Magdalen College, Oxford, 24-26 June 2010

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John Selden (1584-1654):

Scholarship in Context

Magdalen College, Oxford

24-26 June 2010

In association with:

Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford,
Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian.

Sponsored by:

The British Academy
The John Fell OUP Research Fund
The Cultures of Knowledge Project
The Royal Historical SocietyThe English Faculty, University of Oxford

This will be the first major international conference on John Selden (1584-1654), to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his first publications.

For full details see: http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/selden/

John Selden, 'the monarch in letters' (Jonson) and England's 'chief of learned men' (Milton) was Britain's leading scholar, antiquary and jurist. He was a key figure in the advance of Oriental learning in the West: his achievements in Hebraic studies were unparalleled, and he promoted the study of Arabic and Islamic culture. He was a renowned theorist of international law (with his Mare Clausum) and of natural law (with his De Iure Naturali & Gentium). He was also a leading Member of Parliament, especially during the Civil War, and an active member of the Westminster Assembly. His work provoked praise and polemic from scholars, theologians and philosophers. His correspondence ranged throughout the European Republic of Letters and reached to Aleppo in Syria. He was the greatest scholarly book collector in England; more than 8000 volumes of his library were deposited in the Bodleian, where he gave his name to the 'Selden End' of Duke Humfrey's library. This conference aims to build on G.J. Toomer's recent magnum opus, John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (OUP, 2009), to return Selden to the centre of the intellectual culture of his age.

Keynote speakers: