The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2 Vols.) - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004169555 ISBN 13 : 9789004169555

Editeur : Brill, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arjan van Dixhoorn received a PhD in History from the Free University of Amsterdam (2004). He is a postdoctoral research fellow at Antwerp University in a Flemish-Dutch research project on public opinion making in the early modern Netherlands.

Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. (1983) in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Early Modern History at Ghent University. She has published on late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century literature and civic culture in the Southern Low Countries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004169555
• ISBN 13: 9789004169555
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible