Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… distinctive features and practices which far surpasses the pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw literary … of the seventeenth century, academies referred to a form of informal ‘voluntary association,’ much like fraternities and societies. In the first years of the eighteenth century, however, the term reappeared, morphing to include the arts (the … Academy of Painting, founded in 1711, is one example) 1 : British literary and artistic associations, though labelled societies or academies, compared more closely with the informal Italian model. In France, academicians and the royal …
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