Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during the Renaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and c...

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1. Verfasser:	Shelford, April (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:	Changing perspectives on early modern Europe
Schlagworte:	Huet, Pierre-Daniel / 1630-1721 Huet, Pierre Daniel > 1630-1721 Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1600-1700 Geschichte 1650-1720 Geistesleben Europa Europe / Intellectual life / 17th century Europe / Intellectual life / 18th century
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Zusammenfassung:	Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during the Renaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however, it confronted fundamental challenges that influenced its transition to the more public, inclusive, and vernacular discourse of the Enlightenment.<BR><BR> <I>Transforming the Republic of Letters</I> is a cultural and intellectual history that chronicles this transition to "modernity" from the perspective of the internationally renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Under Shelford's direction, Huet guides us into the intensely social intellectual world of salons, scientific academies, and literary academies, while his articulate critiques illumine a combative world of Cartesians versus anti-Cartesians, ancients versus moderns, Jesuits versus Jansenists, and salonnières versus humanist scholars. <I>Transforming the Republic of Letters</I> raises questions of critical importance in Huet's era, and our own, about defining, sharing, and controlling access to knowledge.<BR><BR> April G. Shelford is Assistant Professor in the History Department at American University, Washington, D.C.
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 264 pages)
ISBN:	9781580466899