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.

“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.”

• IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Other VoiceHistorical and Religious Context of the Early Dutch Golden AgeLife and Published WorksAnna 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 CollectionA Curious Addition to the Manuscript (no. 58, 1:71)Note on the Text, Translation, and Cover PortraitThe Plan of the BookPART 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 GraphsAppendix 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, 1636–1782Appendix D: A Biography of Anna Maria van Schurman, by Pierre YvonAppendix E: Examples of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Latin and French LettersBibliographyIndex

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.

“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.”

• IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Other VoiceHistorical and Religious Context of the Early Dutch Golden AgeLife and Published WorksAnna 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 CollectionA Curious Addition to the Manuscript (no. 58, 1:71)Note on the Text, Translation, and Cover PortraitThe Plan of the BookPART 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 GraphsAppendix 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, 1636–1782Appendix D: A Biography of Anna Maria van Schurman, by Pierre YvonAppendix E: Examples of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Latin and French LettersBibliographyIndex

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.

“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.”

• IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Other VoiceHistorical and Religious Context of the Early Dutch Golden AgeLife and Published WorksAnna 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 CollectionA Curious Addition to the Manuscript (no. 58, 1:71)Note on the Text, Translation, and Cover PortraitThe Plan of the BookPART 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 GraphsAppendix 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, 1636–1782Appendix D: A Biography of Anna Maria van Schurman, by Pierre YvonAppendix E: Examples of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Latin and French LettersBibliographyIndex