French correspondents of major Enlightenment figures
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
This dataset merges 1) metadata from the Electronic Enlightenment Project at Oxford University for the French correspondents of important Enlightenment figures (including Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, and Smith); with 2) metadata from the Groupe d'Alembert (led by Irène Passeron) concerning d'Alembert's French correspondents. These data were subsequently 3) enriched by a group of researchers at (or formerly at) Stanford: Maria Comsa, Melanie Conroy, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Edmondson, and Claude Willan. We applied a metadata ontology ("Procope") that classifies prosopographical data according to a hierarchical, controlled vocabulary, and added further data about academy and salon memberships. Details about Procope are available as an appendix to "The French Enlightenment Network," Journal of Modern History 88, no. 3 (2016): 495-534.
NB: the letter count columns (F-H) are not all up-to-date, due to discrepancies between the original data dump from EEP and subsequent revisions to their database.
Description
Type of resource | Dataset |
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Date created | 2014 |
Date modified | August 13, 2021; December 5, 2022 |
Publication date | November 18, 2016 |
Creators/Contributors
Editor | Enlightenment, Electronic | |
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Author | Comsa, Maria | |
Author | Conroy, Melanie | |
Author | Edelstein, Dan | |
Author | Edmondson, Chloe | |
Author | Willan, Claude | |
Author | d'Alembert, Groupe |
Subjects
Subject | Enlightenment |
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Subject | France |
Subject | networks |
Subject | correspondence |
Subject | Electronic Enlightenment Project |
Subject | CESTA |
Genre | Data |
Genre | Data sets |
Genre | Dataset |
Bibliographic information
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bc436tm1194 |
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- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Maria Comsa, Melanie Conroy, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Edmondson, and Claude Willan (2014). French correspondents of major Enlightenment figures. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/bc436tm1194
Collection
Mapping the Republic of Letters
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- danedels@stanford.edu
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