Overview
Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As “the Star of Utrecht,” she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learning and her defense of the education of women, she was the first woman to sit in on lectures at a university in the Netherlands and to advocate that women be admitted into universities. She was proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, Persian, Samaritan, and Ethiopian, as well as several vernacular European languages. This volume presents in translation a remarkable collection of her letters and poems—many of which were previously unpublished—that span almost four decades of her life, from 1631 to 1669.
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Author: Anna Maria Van Schurman , Anne R. Larsen , Steve Maiullo
Publisher: Iter Press
Imprint: Iter Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.698kg
ISBN: 9781649590121
ISBN 10: 1649590121
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 14 September 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction The Other Voice Historical and Religious Context of the Early Dutch Golden Age Life and Published Works Anna Maria van Schurman and Her Mentor, André Rivet Affairs of Church and State Anna Maria van Schurman as Religious Polemicist Anna Maria van Schurman and Female Members of Her Circle Anna Maria van Schurman and Constantijn Huygens, 1633–1669 Anna Maria van Schurman, Latin, and Letter Writing The Reception and Afterlife of Anna Maria van Schurman The KB Collection A Curious Addition to the Manuscript (no. 58, 1:71) Note on the Text, Translation, and Cover Portrait The Plan of the Book PART 1: Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor, André Rivet, and Other Members of Her Circle, 1631–1652 PART 2: Anna Maria van Schurman and Constantijn Huygens: Letters and Poems, 1633–1669 Appendix A: Part 1 and 2 Chronologies and Chronological Graphs Appendix B: Additional Poems by Constantijn Huygens and Caspar Barlaeus to and about Anna Maria van Schurman, 1635–1650 Appendix C: Additional Letters to, from, and about Anna Maria van Schurman, 1636–1782 Appendix D: A Biography of Anna Maria van Schurman, by Pierre Yvon Appendix E: Examples of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Latin and French Letters Bibliography Index
Reviews
This volume of letters and poems, which comes at a propitious time in Anna Maria van Schurman scholarship, is far more inclusive than anything I have seen, and will interest a potentially large audience of knowledgeable readers. The letters included here, in superior translations, display the art of letter writing in all its facets and possibilities, trace the continued exchange of ideas with members of van Schurman's circle, and exemplify the scholarly debates of the seventeenth century, with a woman as one of the debaters. -- Cornelia Niekus Moore, University of Hawaii
This volume of letters and poems, which comes at a propitious time in Anna Maria van Schurman scholarship, is far more inclusive than anything I have seen, and will interest a potentially large audience of knowledgeable readers. The letters included here, in superior translations, display the art of letter writing in all its facets and possibilities, trace the continued exchange of ideas with members of van Schurman's circle, and exemplify the scholarly debates of the seventeenth century, with a woman as one of the debaters. --Cornelia Niekus Moore, University of Hawaii
Author Information
Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) was a Dutch Golden Age scholar, poet, theologian, philosopher, and artist. Anne R. Larsen is professor emerita of French and senior research professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She is the author of Anna Maria van Schurman, “The Star of Utrecht”: The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante. Steve Maiullo is associate professor of classics at Hope College and has published articles on Plato and the teaching of Latin and Greek.
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