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Republic of women : rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth century /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pal, Carol (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 99.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Republic of Women and the republic of letters
  • Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia : an ephemeral academy at The Hague in the 1630s
  • Anna Maria van Schurman : the birth of an intellectual network
  • Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, and Anna Maria van Schurman : constructing intellectual kinship
  • Dorothy Moore of Dublin : an expanding network in the 1640s
  • Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh : many networks, one ``incomparable´´ instrument
  • Bathsua Makin : female scholars and the reformation of learning
  • Endings : the closing of doors.