The Reach Of The Republic Of Letters: Literary And Learned Societies In The Late Medieval And Early Modern Europe (brill's Studies In Intellectual History)
by Arjan van Dixhoorn /
2008 / English / PDF
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Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the
model for the European literary and learned society. This volume
questions the 'Italian paradigm' and discusses the literary and
learned associations in Italy and Spain - explicitly called
academies - as well as others in Germany, France, and the
Netherlands. The flourishing of these organizations from the
fifteenth century onwards coincided chronologically with the growth
of performative literary culture, the technological innovation of
the printing press, the establishment of early humanist networks,
and the growing impact of classical and humanist ideas, concepts,
and forms on vernacular culture. One of the questions this volume
raises is whether and how these societies related to these
developments and to the world of "Learning and the Republic of
Letters".
Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the
model for the European literary and learned society. This volume
questions the 'Italian paradigm' and discusses the literary and
learned associations in Italy and Spain - explicitly called
academies - as well as others in Germany, France, and the
Netherlands. The flourishing of these organizations from the
fifteenth century onwards coincided chronologically with the growth
of performative literary culture, the technological innovation of
the printing press, the establishment of early humanist networks,
and the growing impact of classical and humanist ideas, concepts,
and forms on vernacular culture. One of the questions this volume
raises is whether and how these societies related to these
developments and to the world of "Learning and the Republic of
Letters".
