Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… included scholarly networks created by the academies, and social networks that met face-to-face, thanks to increased travel and social institutions such as the salons, coffeehouses, and masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational … mondanité or worldliness, amateurism, and erudition, to paraphrase Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire. 8 Indeed, correspondence, travel, and institutions of sociability were inextricably linked in this time. The Republic of Letters depended on more … Its existence depended on a combination of features that all proliferated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: travel, print culture, as well as academic institutions like the academies and institutions of sociability like the …
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