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Anna Maria Van Schurman: From Feminism to Pietism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Joyce Irwin
Joyce Irwin
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assistant professor of history in theUniversity of Georgia.
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Extract

Thus far we have considered all the learned ladies of whom we have any knowledge. But as the light of the sun shines above all the stars and with its bright splendor dulls the sparkling starlight, so the learned light of these other ladies stands, as it were, in the shadow because of the great luster of the incomparable young lady Anna Maria van Schurman.

Joh. van Beverwijck, Van de

Uitnementheyt des Vrouwelichen Geslachts (1643)

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 48 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1977

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2. Text and introduction in Schiff, Mario, La Fille d'Alliance de Montaigne: Marie de Gournay (Paris: H. Champion, 1910).Google Scholar

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5. For a much fuller biography than I present here, see Birch, Una, Anna Van Schurman: Artist, Scholar, Saint (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909).Google Scholar For a thorough bibliography, see Douman, Anna Margaretha Hendrika, Anna Maria van Schurinan en de Studie der Vrouw (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1924), pp. 1–7, 68–89.Google Scholar

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10. First published in Paris, it was republished with a slightly altered title in Leiden in 1641. Retitled Problema practicum ad Andr. Rivetum, the Dissertatio with its accompanying correspondence was included as pp. 28–95 of her Opuscula.

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12. Ibid., 71 f.

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16. Ibid., p. 54.

17. Ibid., pp. 66–68.

18. Ibid., p. 60.

19. Ibid., p. 65.

20. Ibid., p. 65 f.

21. Ibid., p. 87.

22. Ibid., p. 91.

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26. Ibid., p. 134.

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28. Ibid., p. 1267.

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31. Ibid., p. 43.

32. Ibid., p. 45 f.

33. Ibid., p. 46 f.

34. Ibid., p. 48.

35. Ibid., p. 42.

36. Ibid., p. 50.

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid., p. 52.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid.

41. Ibid., p. 29.

42. Ibid., p. 31.

43. Ibid., p. 31 f.

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48. Ibid., p. 99.

49. Ibid., p. 85.

50. Ibid., p. 87.