Memory and identity in the learned world community formation in the early modern world of learning and science /
"Memory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern world of learning and science. The book traces how collective identity, institutional memory and modes of remembrance helped to shape learned and scientific communities. The...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Scholten, Koen, editor. Miert, Dirk van, editor. Enenkel, K. A. E., editor. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] |
| Series: | Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture,
volume 81 |
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| Online Access: | Available in Books at JSTOR: Open Access. |
| Summary: | "Memory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern world of learning and science. The book traces how collective identity, institutional memory and modes of remembrance helped to shape learned and scientific communities. The case studies in this book analyse how learned communities and individuals presented and represented themselves, for example in letters, biographies, histories, journals, opera omnia, monuments, academic travels and memorials. By bringing together the perspectives of historians of literature, scholarship, universities, science, and art, this volume studies knowledge communities by looking at the centrality of collective identity and memory in their formations and reformations"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004507159 (online) |
| ISSN: | 1568-1181 ; |