Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas. Correspondence was the defining feature of its existence, enabling the dissemination of ideas, new literary and … community of scholars, and a very real, virtual community comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth -centuries. Not unlike our own contemporary world of individuals all over the … Coleman, ‘Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project’, The American Historical Review (122, n° 2, 2017), pp. 400-424, 409-410. 3 . On improvements to the postal system in Europe, …
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