Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… intellectual 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, … egalitarian 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 … and scope until the significant improvements to the postal system in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century in Europe ( Edelstein et al. 412) . 3 In 1684, Pierre Bayle founded a book review entitled Nouvelles de la République des …
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