Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… Image Jean Huber, 'Un dîner de philosophes', Voltaire Fondation, 1772. Abstract The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout … scholars writing to one another in Latin to communicate ideas, influence public opinion, and signal their identity as intellectuals. This notion of a scholarly community in communication, created by and nourished by the exchange of … old and new ties, as well as the need for places where locals and foreigners could meet – milieus where worldly and intellectual exchange could take place . 9 After all, t he soaring to prominence of the Republic of Letters also depended …
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