Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… 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 than correspondence alone for … of the Republic of Letters was enriched by networks grounded in institutions, both formal and informal institutions of sociability. 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 salons and coffeehouses. This contributed to the transition from a ‘ humanist model of Latin men of …
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