Intellectual and Textual Entrepôts: Moses and Aaron, Hermann Witsius and the International Transmission of Educational Texts

This essay traces a web of exchanges between England and the Low Countries and within continental Europe in the late seventeenth century by investigating the dissemination and use of the English educational text Moses and Aaron (1625) in various editions and translations. The study of the text and i...

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Published inEnglish studies Vol. 92; no. 5; pp. 562 - 575
Main Author Whitehouse, Tessa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisse Routledge 01.08.2011
Swets & Zeitlinger bv
Subjects
European studies
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Witsius, Hermann
Writers
Europe
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Summary:This essay traces a web of exchanges between England and the Low Countries and within continental Europe in the late seventeenth century by investigating the dissemination and use of the English educational text Moses and Aaron (1625) in various editions and translations. The study of the text and its paratexts is placed in the context of intellectual, theological and social exchanges between writers from England and the Low Countries, focusing on the universities of the Low Countries as crucial entrepôts. The role of religious nonconformists and dissenters in the exchanges which allowed Moses and Aaron to circulate so widely is emphasised. Moses and Aaron can itself be considered an entrepôt, for it gathered together and placed in dialogue the research and ideas of scholars fromacross northern Europe. Versions of Moses and Aaron also demonstrated and disseminated a new model for scholarly debate to readers across Europe.
ISSN:0013-838X
1744-4217
DOI:10.1080/0013838X.2011.584740