Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… created by and nourished by the exchange of letters, could not truly flourish in scale and scope until the significant improvements to the postal system in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century in Europe ( Edelstein et al. 412) . … 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, see Wolfgang Behringer, ‘Communications Revolutions: A Historiographical …
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