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Record Nr.

UNINA9910568187803321

Autore

Scholten Koen

Titolo

Memory and Identity in the Learned World : Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

90-04-50715-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (368 pages)

Collana

Intersections.

Altri autori (Persone)

van MiertDirk

EnenkelK. A. E

Disciplina

001.209

Soggetti

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Memory and identity in learned communities / Koen Scholten -- "Identities" in humanist autobiographies and related self-presentations / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Female faces and learned likenesses : author portraits and the construction of female authorship and intellectual authority / Lieke van Deinsen -- Scholarly identity and gender in the Respublica litteraria : the cases of Luisa Sigea (1522-1560) and Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) / Esther Villegas de la Torre -- The republic of letters mapping the republic of letters : Jacob Brucker's Pinacotheca (1741-1755) and its antecedents / Floris Solleveld -- Mirror, model, muse : institutional memory and identity in the Dublin, Oxford and royal societies / Constance Hardesty -- Miscellanies of memory : from scholarly biography to institutional history in the early modern German university / Richard Kirwan -- Tracing the sites of learned men : Lieux and objets de savoir on the Dutch and Polish grand tour / Paul Hulsenboom and Alan Moss -- The curious case of Isaac Casaubon's monstrous bladder : the networked construction of learned memory within the seventeenth-century reformed world of learning / Dirk van Miert.

Sommario/riassunto

Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity.