The Reach of the Republic of Letters: Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Arjan Van Dixhoorn, Susie Speakman Sutch
BRILL, Sep 30, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 520 pages
Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the model for the European literary and learned society. This volume questions the a ~Italian paradigma (TM) and discusses the literary and learned associations in Italy and Spain a " explicitly called academies a " as well as others in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The flourishing of these organizations from the fifteenth century onwards coincided chronologically with the growth of performative literary culture, the technological innovation of the printing press, the establishment of early humanist networks, and the growing impact of classical and humanist ideas, concepts, and forms on vernacular culture. One of the questions this volume raises is whether and how these societies related to these developments and to the world of Learning and the Republic of Letters.
 

Contents

Introduction Arjan van Dixhoorn and Susie Speakman Sutch
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Chapter One The Consistori del Gay Saber of Toulouse 1323c 1484 Laura Kendrick
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Chapter Two Patrons of Poetry Rouens Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady Dylan Reid
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Chapter Three The Joyful Companies of the FrenchSpeaking Cities and Towns of the Southern Netherlands and their Dramatic Culture FifteenthSixte...
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Chapter Four Chambers of Rhetoric Performative Culture and Literary Sociability in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands Arjan van Dixhoorn
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Chapter Five The Basoche in the Late Middle Ages A School of Technical savoirfaire Marie BouhaïkGironès
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Chapter Six The Roman Academy of Pomponio Leto From an Informal Humanist Network to the Institution of a Literary Society Susanna de Beer
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Chapter Seven The Companies of Meistergesang in Germany Michael Baldzuhn
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Chapter Nine The Accademia degli Alterati and Civic Virtue Henk Th van Veen
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Chapter Ten SeventeenthCentury Academies in the City of Granada A Comparatist Approach Francisco J Álvarez Ignacio García Aguilar and Inmacu...
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Chapter Eleven The Growth of Civil Society The Emergence of Guilds of Lawyers in the Southern Low Countries in its European Context the Sixtee...
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Chapter Twelve Reading the Universal Book of Nature The Accademia dei Lincei in Rome 16031630 Irene Baldriga
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Chapter Thirteen Alles zu NutzenThe Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft 16171680 as a German Renaissance Academy Gabriele Ball
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Epilogue Arjan van Dixhoorn
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Appendix Questionnaire The Reach of the Republic of Letters
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Bibliography
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CONTENTS VOLUME TWO
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Chapter Eight The Heritage of the Umidi Performative Poetry in the Early Accademia Fiorentina Inge Werner
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