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Richard Maber's Outputs (3)

Re-Gendering Intellectual Life: Gilles Ménage and his Histoire des femmes philosophes. (2010)
Journal Article
Maber, R. G. (2010). Re-Gendering Intellectual Life: Gilles Ménage and his Histoire des femmes philosophes. Seventeenth-century French studies, 32(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1179/026510610x12713438444675

The late work of Gilles Ménage (1613–1692), Historia mulierum philosopharum (1690), is a compilation of all the information that he could gather concerning women philosophers from earliest antiquity to the fourteenth century. It made little impact wh... Read More about Re-Gendering Intellectual Life: Gilles Ménage and his Histoire des femmes philosophes..

Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship. (2010)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2010). Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship. In P. Scott (Ed.), Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Maber (227-248). Manchester University Press

The Republic of Letters emerged during the seventeenth century as a concept to describe the interaction between scholars across Europe and beyond. While the concept was an imaginary one, it was firmly grounded in a reality of close circles of interac... Read More about Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship..