Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… erudite male 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 … was in part what the Enlightenment was all about, ‘these different networks were central to their participants’ identity . One could not take part in the Enlightenment on one’s own’ ( Edmondson and Edelstein 2). Correspondence in the …
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