The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Arjan Van Dixhoorn
English | Sep. 30, 2008 | ISBN: 9004169555 | 543 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | Sep. 30, 2008 | ISBN: 9004169555 | 543 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.