Rethinking the Republic of Letters : Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholten, Koen, author.

Series:

Knowledge Communities Series

Knowledge Communities Series ; v.15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Group identity--Europe--History.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Scholten Koen : Koen Scholten is a historian of science and published on memory and identity in scholarly and scientific communities. He edited Memory and Identity in the Learned World (Brill, 2022) and received his PhD from Utrecht University on a thesis on the formation of early modern communities in the world of learning in 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: The Republic of Letters as an Imagined Community

Historiography

Whose Republic of Letters?

The Republic of Letters as an Imagined Community

Scholarly Identity

Scholarly Memory

Structure, Sources, and Outline

1. An Inventory of Scholarly Values and Virtues

1.1 Vitae, Virtue, and Digital Textual Analysis

1.2 Typology of Scholarly Virtue

1.2.1 Innate Brilliance, Learning, and Erudition-Ingenium, Doctrina, and Eruditio

1.2.2 Cardinal and Christian Values-Fortitudo, Iustitia, Sapientia, Temperantia and Prudentia

1.2.3 Piety and Faith-Pietas and Fides

1.3 The Alterity of Female Scholars

1.4 Conclusion

2. Collective History and Geographical Inclusion in Vitae and Elogia

2.1 Early Ideals of a Transnational Learned Community

2.2 The Learned Man Amidst Confessionalisation

2.3 The Learned Man and National Consciousness

2.4 Chronicles and Chroniclers of Learned Communities

2.5 Conclusion

3. Collective Memory and Identity in Hugo Grotius's Correspondence

3.1 Hierarchy, Collective Goals, and Conduct

3.2 Citation Analysis: Collective Memory and Historical Awareness

3.2.1 Church Fathers

3.2.2 Graeco-Roman Writers

3.2.3 Reformers and Religious Thinkers

3.3 Scholarly Virtues and Values

3.3.1 Friendship-Amicitia

3.3.2 Trust and Faith-Fides

3.3.3 Innate Brilliance and Erudition-Ingenium and Eruditio

3.4 Conclusion

4. The Peregrinatio Literaria: Experiencing, Representing, and Forming Learned Communities

4.1 The Typology of a Peregrinatio Literaria

4.2 Joannes Kool in Italy, 1698-1699

4.2.1 Florence: Magliabechi and the Bibliotheca Medicea Laurentiana

4.2.2 Rome: Cardinal Enrico Noris and the Bibliotheca Vaticana.

4.3 Conclusion

5. The Basilica di Santa Croce: The Florentine Site of Learned Memory

5.1 Funerary Monuments as Learned Sites of Memory

5.2 The Florentine Memory Culture and the Basilica di Santa Croce

5.3 Typology and Chronology of Learned Memory in the Basilica di Santa Croce

5.3.1 Learned Poets and Orators as the Pinnacle of Virtue, c. 1400-1564

5.3.2 From Laureate Statesmen to Gifted Geniuses, 1568-1737

5.3.3 A New Wave of Memory and Grandeur, 1737-C. 1800

5.4 Conclusion

6. The Pieterskerk: Representing the Learned Community of Leiden University

6.1 Leiden University and Its Memory Culture

6.2 The Young University: Honour for Life and Learning, 1575-C. 1600

6.3 Glory and Teaching: The Pride and Joy of Batavia, C. 1600-1640

6.4 Family, Nobility, and Personal Greatness, c. 1640-c. 1750

6.5 Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

List of Abbreviations

Manuscript Sources

Printed Sources, Before 1800

Printed Sources, Modern

Secondary Literature

Appendix 1

Corpus and Keyword Analysis

Main Corpus

Reference Corpus

Acknowledgements

Index Nominum

General Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-080030-0

1-003-70299-6

1-04-077440-7

9781003702993

OCLC:

1521333266

Publisher Number:

CIPO000308673