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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108436625
ISBN-139781108436625
eBay Product ID (ePID)240583524
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Number of Pages342 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRepublic of Women : Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century
SubjectWomen Authors, History & Theory, General, Women's Studies
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorCarol Pal
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
SeriesIdeas in Context Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Pal offers a lively analysis of the intellectual dynamism evident at the exiled court of the Bohemian royal family at The Hague, which under the influence of the erudite Princess Elizabeth became the center of a tightly knit learned society from the 1630s to the 1680s." Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 99
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal809/.89287
Table Of ContentPrologue; Introduction; 1. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: an ephemeral academy at The Hague in the 1630s; 2. Anna Maria van Schurman: the birth of an intellectual network; 3. Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, and Anna Maria van Schurman: constructing intellectual kinship; 4. Dorothy Moore of Dublin: an expanding network in the 1640s; 5. Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh: many networks, one 'incomparable' instrument; 6. Bathsua Makin: female scholars and the reformation of learning; 7. Endings: the closing of doors; Conclusions.
SynopsisRepublic of Women recaptures a lost chapter in the narrative of intellectual history. It tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of the seventeenth-century republic of letters and demonstrates that this intellectual commonwealth was a much more eclectic and diverse assemblage than has been assumed. These seven scholars - Anna Maria van Schurman, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin and Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh - were philosophers, schoolteachers, reformers and mathematicians. They hailed from England, Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands, and together with their male colleagues - men like Descartes, Huygens, Hartlib and Montaigne - they represented the spectrum of contemporary approaches to science, faith, politics and the advancement of learning. Carol Pal uses their collective biography to reconfigure the intellectual biography of early modern Europe, offering a new, expanded analysis of the seventeenth-century community of ideas., Republic of Women recaptures a lost chapter in the narrative of intellectual history. It tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of the seventeenth-century republic of letters and demonstrates that this intellectual commonwealth was a much more eclectic and diverse assemblage than has been assumed. These seven scholars - Anna Maria van Schurman, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin and Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh - were philosophers, schoolteachers, reformers and mathematicians. They hailed from England, Ireland, Germany, France and The Netherlands. And together with their male colleagues - men like Descartes, Huygens, Hartlib and Montaigne - they represented the spectrum of contemporary approaches to science, faith, politics and the advancement of learning. Carol Pal uses their collective biography to reconfigure the intellectual biography of early modern Europe, offering a new, expanded analysis of the seventeenth-century community of ideas., Carol Pal recaptures a forgotten moment in intellectual history, when a transnational network of female scholars was active within the republic of letters. In restoring this lost episode, Republic of Women sheds new light on the advancement of learning and reconfigures the map of learned Europe in the seventeenth century.
LC Classification NumberPN471.P35 2017
