Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century (Ideas in Context, Series Number 99)

"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"-- Provided by publisher CBO9781139087490A003.pdf 1 Republic of Women 1 Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century 1 Republic of Women 3 rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth’century 3 CBO9781139087490A004.pdf 6 Contents 1 CBO9781139087490A005.pdf 7 Acknowledgments 1 CBO9781139087490A006.pdf 11 Definitions and conventions 1 Translations 1 Transcriptions 1 Sources in print 1 Abbreviations 1 The republic of letters in the seventeenth century 1 Citizens of the Republic of Women 1 Methodology: the practices of knowledge 1 Sources 1 The next generation: female scholars in the eighteenth century 1 Rethinking the republic of letters 1 CBO9781139087490A007.pdf 14 Prologue 1 CBO9781139087490A008.pdf 18 Chapter 0: Introduction: The Republic of Women and the republic of letters 35 CBO9781139087490A009.pdf 40 Chapter 1: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: an ephemeral academy at The Hague in the 1630s 1 At the crossroads of the republic of letters 1 The exile court in the Hague 1 Elisabeth, Princess Palatine (1618-80) 1 CBO9781139087490A010.pdf 71 Chapter 2: Anna Maria van Schurman: the birth of an intellectual network 1 Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-78) 1 Van Schurman and the republic of letters 1 The arrival of Anna Maria Van Schurman 1 Princess Elisabeth meets Anna Maria van Schurman 1 Educational advice for Princess Elisabeth 1 CBO9781139087490A011.pdf 98 Chapter 3: Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, and Anna Maria van Schurman: constructing intellectual kinship 1 Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) 1 Marie de Gournay, `mère dalliance ́ 1 Marie du Moulin (c.1613-99) 1 Marie du Moulin, educator 1 CBO9781139087490A012.pdf 131 Chapter 4: Dorothy Moore of Dublin: an expanding network in the 1640s 1 Choices and change: shifting alliances 1 Dorothy Moore (c.1612-64) 1 Creating a career: Dorothy Moore in the Netherlands 1 Dorothy Moore, André Rivet, and Anna Maria van Schurman 1 CBO9781139087490A013.pdf 164 Chapter 5: Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh: many networks, one ``incomparable ́ ́ instrument 1 The Incomparable Lady Ranelagh (1615-91) 1 A band of brothers: Hartlib, Dury, and Comenius 1 Teaching as a tool for change: Lady Ranelagh and educational reform 1 Lady Ranelagh, Anglo-Irish networks, and the Invisible College 1 The medical networks of Lady Ranelagh 1 The political networks of Lady Ranelagh 1 CBO9781139087490A014.pdf 200 Chapter 6: Bathsua Makin: female scholars and the reformation of learning 1 A lifetime in education: Bathsua Makin (c.1600-c.1681) 1 Theory and practice in education: Bathsua Makin and Anna Maria Van Schurman 1 CBO9781139087490A015.pdf 230 Chapter 7: Endings: the closing of doors 1 Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) 1 Dorothy Moore (c.1612-64) 1 Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615-91) 1 Bathsua Makin (c.1600-c.1681) 1 Marie du Moulin (c.1613-99) 1 Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78) 1 Princess Elisabeth (1618-80) 1 CBO9781139087490A016.pdf 291 Conclusions 1 CBO9781139087490A017.pdf 310 Bibliography 1 CBO9781139087490A018.pdf 337 Index 1 Republic of Women - Cambridge Books Online - Cambridge Unive.pdf 344 Women scholars --Europe --Biography,Women --Europe --Intellectual life --17th century,Europe --Intellectual life --17th century,Learning and scholarship --History --17th century,POLITICAL SCIENCE-- History & Theory. Machine generated contents note: Prologue; Introduction; 1. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: an ephemeral academy at The Hague in the 1630s; 2. Anna Maria van Schurman: the birth of an intellectual network; 3. Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, and Anna Maria van Schurman: constructing intellectual kinship; 4. Dorothy Moore of Dublin: an expanding network in the 1640s; 5. Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh: many networks, one 'incomparable' instrument; 6. Bathsua Makin: female scholars and the reformation of learning; 7. Endings: the closing of doors; Conclusions. Carol Pal recaptures a forgotten moment in intellectual history, when a transnational network of female scholars was active within the republic of letters. In restoring this lost episode, Republic of Women sheds new light on the advancement of learning and reconfigures the map of learned Europe in the seventeenth century.