TY - BOOK AU - Scholten,Koen AU - Miert,Dirk van AU - Enenkel,Karl A.E. TI - Memory and Identity in the Learned World: Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science T2 - Intersections SN - 9789004507159 AV - AZ604 U1 - 001.209 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Collective memory KW - Europe KW - Group identity KW - History KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Memory KW - Social aspects KW - Science N1 - Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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. Contributors include Lieke van Deinsen, Karl Enenkel, Constance Hardesty, Paul Hulsenboom, Dirk van Miert, Alan Moss, Richard Kirwan, Koen Scholten, Floris Solleveld, and Esther M. Villegas de la Torre UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004507159 ER -