The reach of the republic of letters : literary and learned societies in late medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Arjan van Dixhoorn, Susie Speakman Sutch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixhoorn, Arjan van.

Sutch, Susie Speakman.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history 0920-8607 ; v. 168.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 168

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Europe--Societies--History--Congresses.

Literature.

Societies.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xiv, 520 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Summary:

Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the model for the European literary and learned society. This book questions the 'Italian paradigm' and discusses the literary and learned associations in Italy and Spain-explicitly called academies - 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 book raises is whether and how these societies related to these developments and to the world of Learning and the Republic of Letters.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Consistori del Gay Saber of Toulouse (1323-c. 1484) / Laura Kendrick 17

Chapter 2 Patrons of Poetry: Rouen's Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of Our / Lady Dylan Reid 33

Chapter 3 The Joyful Companies of the French-Speaking Cities and Towns of the Southern Netherlands and their Dramatic Culture (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) / Katell Lavéant 79

Chapter 4 Chambers of Rhetoric: Performative Culture and Literary Sociability in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands / Arjan van Dixhoorn 119

Chapter 5 The Basoche in the Late Middle Ages: A School of Technical savoir-faire / Marie Bouhaik-Gironès 159

Chapter 6 The Roman 'Academy' of Pomponio Leto: From an Informal Humanist Network to the Institution of a Literary Society / Susanna de Beer 181

Chapter 7 The Companies of Meistergesang in Germany / Michael Baldzuhn 219

Chapter 8 The Heritage of the Umidi: Performative Poetry in the Early Accademia Fiorentina / Inge Werner 257

Chapter 9 The Accademia degli Alterati and Civic Virtue / Henk Th. van Veen 285

Chapter 10 Seventeenth-Century Academies in the City of Granada: A Comparatist Approach / Francisco J. Alvarez, Ignacio Garcia Aguilar, Inmaculada Osuna 309

Chapter 11 The Growth of Civil Society: The Emergence of Guilds of Lawyers in the Southern Low Countries in its European Context (the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century) / Hilde de Ridder-Symoens 337

Chapter 12 Reading the Universal Book of Nature: The Accademia dei Lincei in Rome (1603-1630) / Irene Baldriga 353

Chapter 13 Alles zu Nutzen-The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (1617-1680) as a German Renaissance Academy / Gabriele Ball 389.

Notes:

Papers presented at two workshops held in Rome in 2003 and 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-502) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004169555

9004169555

9789004172609

9004172602

9789004172616

9004172610

OCLC:

244476543