Between Theology, Early Modern Science and Political Correspondence: The Socinian Exchange of Letters

基于图表的电子版《社会主义书信》为研究欧洲为神学、早期现代科学和政治之间的新平衡而进行的跨忏悔斗争提供了主要来源的基础。该版本涵盖了从大约1580年到大约1740年的时期，因此提供了从忏悔主义时代到启蒙运动时期的信息。到目前为止，已经编目的2047封写给其他社会主义者或其他教派学者的信件，反映了对宗教主题的历史化、合理化方法、早期现代科学问题及其方法论和政治通信之间复杂的相互依存关系。此外，社会通信提供了宝贵的见解，学术网络涵盖了欧洲的大部分地区。目前还没有适合研究的完整的《社会主义书信》历史批判版。正在寻求的资金将用于识别所有这些信件并将其纳入数字版本。除了文本评论，主题和内容描述的评论，基于图形的数字版提供了基于地理，个人和主题的评估选项的好处，通过包括文本的系统关键字。此外，该版本还将天文现象的图形描述附在信件中，其中大部分以铜版版画的形式出版，并说明了通信中讨论的主题。以前未发表的政治报告也以同样的方式处理，其中附有250多封信件。通过这种方式，该版本为神学历史，哲学史，科学史和文化史的新跨学科研究领域的开放创造了主要的来源先决条件。

The graph based digital edition of Socinian correspondence provides a basis of primary sources for researching the transconfessional struggle in Europe for a new balance between theology, early modern science and politics. The edition covers the period from ca. 1580 to ca. 1740, and thus provides information on processes from the age of Confessionalism to the Enlightenment period. The 2047 letters that have been catalogued to date, which were addressed to other Socinians or to scholars of other confessions, reflect the complex interdependencies between historicizing, rationalizing approaches to religious subject matter, early modern scientific questions and their methodology, and political correspondence. Additionally, the Socinian correspondence provides valuable insights into the scholarly networks which encompassed large parts of Europe. There is currently no complete historical-critical edition of the Socinian correspondence suitable for research. The funding being sought will be used to identify all of these letters and incorporate them into the digital edition. In addition to textual-critical commentaries, commentaries on the subject matter and content descriptions, the graph based digital edition offers the benefits of evaluation options based on geography, individual persons and topics by means of the systematic keywording of the included texts. Additionally, the edition incorporates graphical depictions of astronomical phenomena which were enclosed with the letters, most of which were published in the form of copperplate engravings, and which illustrate the subject matter discussed in the correspondence. The previously unpublished political reports, which were enclosed with well over 250 letters, are treated in the same way. In this way, the edition creates the primary source prerequisites for the opening of new interdisciplinary fields of research for theological history, philosophical history, the history of science, and cultural history.