TY - BOOK ID - 471328 TI - Republic of women : rethinking the Republic of Letters in the seventeenth century PY - 2012 VL - 99 SN - 9781107018211 9781139087490 9781139424035 1139424033 1139087495 9781139419949 1139419943 1107018218 1107230896 1139411594 1280773758 9786613684523 1139422960 1139417908 1139421999 1108436625 9781108436625 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Literature and society KW - Women scholars KW - Women KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Scholars KW - Women in education KW - Women specialists KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - History KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Intellectual life KW - Social aspects KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Europe KW - Erudition KW - Scholarship KW - Civilization KW - Education KW - Research KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Women scholars - Europe - Biography KW - Women - Europe - Intellectual life - 17th century KW - Europe - Intellectual life - 17th century KW - Learning and scholarship - History - 17th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:471328 AB - 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. ER -