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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.
Price: $280.00
Pages: 520
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
16 October 2008
ISBN: 9789004169555
Format: Hardcover
"(...) Taken as a formal aid to confine the period of time and social group the notion 'Republic of Letters' is very helpful to allude to the learned as a main group and actors in all the research papers. The papers (...) reveal, through example, individually diverse and highly complex interconnectivities, qualities that would be lost in a mere collection of data." - Anja-Silvia Goeing, in: Studium, Vol 3, No 1 (2010) 48-49
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.
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.