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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Das Symposion "Ways of Communication. Literary and Learned Societies and the Republic of Letters (1200-1700)" findet in englischer Sprache vom 23. bis 26. Juni 2008 im Bibelsaal der Bibliotheca Augusta an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel statt.
Die Leitung haben Dr. Gabriele Ball, Wolfenbüttel, Dr. Arjan van Dixhoorn, Antwerpen und Prof. Dr. Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Gent.
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn
Typical for the intellectual life of the later middle ages and the early modern period was a low level of specialization in scholarly careers, the spread of learning beyond the traditional institutions (religious institutions, schools and universities), the growth of vernacular learning and (thus) of a vernacular public for learning. The manuscript book and then the printing press were major agents in the dispersal of knowledge. The Italian academies allegedly became another new agent in the spread of vernacular learning.
Building on the first two meetings (Rome 2003 and 2006), this workshop will focus more directly on the role of several clusters of literary and learned societies in the spread of learned culture. We exclude (national) societies that reached a status in the international world of science such as the Académie Française and the Royal Society from our investigations, as well as societies that were solely meant for the professional training of artists, surgeons, or lawyers. The literary and learned societies that we will study were assemblies of amateurs in the arts and sciences.
Historians generally acknowledge that literary and learned societies had an important role in communicating ideas, opinions, and cultural models and in bolstering social cohesion among cultured publics in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. In mainstream historiography, the early modern Italian academies stand out as the predecessors of literary and learned societies throughout Europe. This genealogy, firmly established at the beginning of the twentieth century, still needs verification (or falsification) through a systematic and comparative analysis of European literary and learned societies.
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