Rethinking the Republic of Letters
This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These communitie...
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2025
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| description | This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These communities formed through distinct memory cultures and the representation of and identification with collective identities. Rethinking the Republic of Letters looks at early modern biographical dictionaries (vitae), eulogies, letters, travelogues, and funerary monuments of early modern learned men to trace the (re)formation of these communities. It thereby offers a novel perspective on early modern learned communities – the many Republics of Letters. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1601272025-05-29T05:54:34Z Rethinking the Republic of Letters Scholten, Koen knowledge communities, scholarly memory, collective identity, Republic of Letters, early modern science, history of scholarship, memory culture thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These communities formed through distinct memory cultures and the representation of and identification with collective identities. Rethinking the Republic of Letters looks at early modern biographical dictionaries (vitae), eulogies, letters, travelogues, and funerary monuments of early modern learned men to trace the (re)formation of these communities. It thereby offers a novel perspective on early modern learned communities – the many Republics of Letters. 2025-05-22T05:12:11Z 2025-05-22T05:12:11Z 2025-05-21T08:39:02Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102206 9789048559855 9789048559862 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160127 eng Knowledge Communities open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102206/1/9789048571901.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102206/7/9789048559862.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048559855 10.5117/9789048559855 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789048559855 9789048559862 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 412 Amsterdam 724972 open access |
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