Susie Speakman Sutch

Arjan Van Dixhoorn

This volume questions the present-day assumption holding the Italian academies to be the model for the European literary and learned society, by juxtaposing them to other types of contemporary literary and learned associations in several Western European countries.

Literary and Learned Societies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Reach of the Republic of Letters

Jan Bloemendal

Elsa Strietman

This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other evidence of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making.

Arjan Van Dixhoorn

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