Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… and practices which far surpasses the pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven … the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were established by letters patent—conferred on them a highly institutionalised … England, meanwhile, until the beginning of the seventeenth century, academies referred to a form of informal ‘voluntary association,’ much like fraternities and societies. In the first years of the eighteenth century, however, the term …
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