Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… and eighteenth -centuries. Not unlike our own contemporary world of individuals all over the world communicating with one another through digital social networks, early modern individuals such as Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire , David … members of the Republic of Letters. These academies – particularly the royal academies – supported networks of scholars with some overlapping membership – uniting scholars in the provinces and in the capital (like in France) or uniting … shows, the French academies for instance were both part of the Republic of Letters and constituted its own network within the larger European network of academies, and ‘in both cases, the ideal traits of the Republic of Letters, …
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