Memory and Identity in the Learned World

Koen Scholten is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Research Institute for History at Utrecht University. He has published articles on early modern science and scholarship as well as on scholarly travels. His current research focuses on how scholarly communities form and reform in early modern Europe. Dirk van Miert is Associate Professor of Early Modern Culture at Utrecht University and Director of the Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). He has published widely on the history of learning, scholarship, universities and the Republic of Letters. Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300–1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

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Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors



1 Introduction: Memory and Identity in Learned Communities

 Koen Scholten



Part 1: Collective Identity

2 “Identities” in Humanist Autobiographies and Related Self-Presentations

 Karl A.E. Enenkel



3 Female Faces and Learned Likenesses: Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Authorship and Intellectual Authority

 Lieke van Deinsen



4 Scholarly Identity and Gender in the Respublica litteraria: The Cases of Luisa Sigea (1522–1560) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)

 Esther M. Villegas de la Torre



5 The Republic of Letters Mapping the Republic of Letters: Jacob Brucker’s Pinacotheca (1741–1755) and Its Antecedents

 Floris Solleveld



Part 2: Institutional Memory as a Shared Past

6 Mirror, Model, Muse: Institutional Memory and Identity in the Dublin, Oxford and Royal Societies

 Constance Hardesty



7 Miscellanies of Memory: From Scholarly Biography to Institutional History in the Early Modern German University

 Richard Kirwan



Part 3: Memory Cultures and Modes of Remembrance

8 Tracing the Sites of Learned Men: Places and Objects of Knowledge on the Dutch and Polish Grand Tour

 Paul Hulsenboom and Alan Moss



9 The Curious Case of Isaac Casaubon’s Monstrous Bladder: The Networked Construction of Learned Memory within the Seventeenth-Century Reformed World of Learning

 Dirk van Miert



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