Memory and Identity in the Learned World : : Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science / / edited by Koen Scholten, Dirk van Miert, and Karl A. E. Enenkel.

• Superior document: Intersections Series ; Volume 81
• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.,; Miert, Dirk van,; Scholten, Koen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 81.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (368 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

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

Table of Contents

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.