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The essays in this book are based on papers that were delivered on the conference Memory and Identity in the Learned World: Community Formation in the Learned World of Science and Learning held in Utrecht on November 7–9, 2019. The conference and this publication have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 724972).
Cover illustrations: (central image) “Scholar in his Study”. Artist Jan Jacobsz. Wielant, after Henrick Rochuszn van Dagen. Courtesy Rijkmuseum Amsterdam, object RP-P-1998-435; (background image) “Library with two floors”. Artist: Balthasar Sigmund Setletzky, after Johann Jakob Schübler, c. 1724. Courtesy Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-2015-26.
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Names: Scholten, Koen, editor. | Miert, Dirk van, editor. | Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.
Title: Memory and identity in the learned world : community formation in the early modern world of learning and science / edited by Koen Scholten, Dirk van Miert, Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568–1181 ; volume 81 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021062711 (print) | LCCN 2021062712 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004507142 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004507159 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Learning and scholarship—Europe—History. | Science—Europe—History. | Memory—Social aspects—Europe. | Collective memory—Europe. | Group identity—Europe—History.
Classification: LCC AZ604 .M46 2022 (print) | LCC AZ604 (ebook) | DDC 001.209—dc23/eng/20220124
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