Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… and masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Academies Censorship Community Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Networks Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters was both an … in meeting the right people to gain access to patronage and sponsorship from the elites of society, and help in avoiding censorship. 15 The Republic of Letters in its heyday from the late seventeeth century to the end of the eighteenth … of the networks which composed it. In early modern times when nations and sovereigns maintained restrictive standards of censorship, the Republic of Letters allowed for the free exchange of ideas across national borders, in a community …
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