Rethinking the Republic of Letters

Koen Scholten is a historian of science and published on memory and identity in scholarly and scientific communities. He edited Memory and Identity in the Learned World (Brill, 2022) and received his PhD from Utrecht University on a thesis on the formation of early modern communities in the world of learning in 2023.

• Introduction: The Republic of Letters as an Imagined Community Chapter 1. An Inventory of Scholarly Values and Virtues Chapter 2. Collective History and Geographical Inclusion in Vitae and Elogia Chapter 3. Collective Memory and Identity in Hugo Grotius’s Correspondence Chapter 4. The Peregrinatio Literaria: Experiencing, Representing, and Forming Learned Communities Chapter 5. The Basilica di Santa Croce: The Florentine Site of Learned Memory Chapter 6. The Pieterskerk: Representing the Learned Community of Leiden University Conclusion Bibliography List of Abbreviations Manuscript Sources Printed Sources, Before 1800 Printed Sources, Modern Secondary Literature Appendix 1 Corpus and Keyword Analysis Main Corpus Reference Corpus Acknowledgements