Making the Cut: Collective Biographies and the Shaping of Collective Female Intellectual Authority in Enlightenment Europe KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project, however, reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual authority at the dawn of modernity, in the age of Enlightenment, by systematically analyzing the textual (and at times visual) portraits of women in collective biographies of the learned published in the 18th century. Enjoying great popularity in the early modern period, ...