A Face of One's Own. Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Intellectual Authority in Early Modern Europe KU Leuven
This project investigates women’s historical effort to embody intellectual authority, by analyzing portraits of learned women as agents of public image in the male-dominated European intellectual field (1550-1800).
The complex position of learned women in the early modern public sphere has been the focus of increased attention. However, recent historical studies are characterized by a strongly biographical and text-based methodology ...