Rethinking the Republic of Letters: Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities (Knowledge Communities) - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

- Offers a critical take and new look on the historiography of the Republic of Letters; - Offers a systematic look at previously ignored sources in the history of science/scholarship, such as biographical dictionaries, eulogies, travelogues, and funerary monuments; - Offers a new theoretical/conceptual framework for understanding the formation of early modern knowledge communities, by analyzing them as imagined communities. 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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.