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Book SynopsisMemory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern world of learning and science. The book traces how collective identity, institutional memory and modes of remembrance helped to shape learned and scientific communities. The case studies in this book analyse how learned communities and individuals presented and represented themselves, for example in letters, biographies, histories, journals, opera omnia, monuments, academic travels and memorials. By bringing together the perspectives of historians of literature, scholarship, universities, science, and art, this volume studies knowledge communities by looking at the centrality of collective identity and memory in their formations and reformations. Contributors: Lieke van Deinsen, Karl Enenkel, Constance Hardesty, Paul Hulsenboom, Dirk van Miert, Alan Moss, Richard Kirwan, Koen Scholten, Floris Solleveld, and Esther M. Villegas de la Torre.
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Memory and Identity in Learned Communities Koen Scholten Part 1: Collective Identity 2 “Identities” in Humanist Autobiographies and Related Self-Presentations Karl A.E. Enenkel 3 Female Faces and Learned Likenesses: Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Authorship and Intellectual Authority Lieke van Deinsen 4 Scholarly Identity and Gender in the Respublica litteraria: The Cases of Luisa Sigea (1522–1560) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) Esther M. Villegas de la Torre 5 The Republic of Letters Mapping the Republic of Letters: Jacob Brucker’s Pinacotheca (1741–1755) and Its Antecedents Floris Solleveld Part 2: Institutional Memory as a Shared Past 6 Mirror, Model, Muse: Institutional Memory and Identity in the Dublin, Oxford and Royal Societies Constance Hardesty 7 Miscellanies of Memory: From Scholarly Biography to Institutional History in the Early Modern German University Richard Kirwan Part 3: Memory Cultures and Modes of Remembrance 8 Tracing the Sites of Learned Men: Places and Objects of Knowledge on the Dutch and Polish Grand Tour Paul Hulsenboom and Alan Moss 9 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 Index Nominum
