Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven liberally into the urban fabric of European … (1690) defined the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were established by letters patent—conferred on them a highly … artistic associations, though labelled societies or academies, compared more closely with the informal Italian model. In France, academicians and the royal administration alike shared the desire for the institutionalised model which …
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