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Summary

Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the model for the European literary and learned society. This volume 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 volume raises is whether and how these societies related to these developments and to the world of Learning and the Republic of Letters.

Author Biography

Arjan van Dixhoorn received a Ph.D. (2004) in History from the Free University of Amsterdam. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at Antwerp University in a Flemish-Dutch research project on public opinion making in the early modern Netherlands. Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. (1983) in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Early Modern History at Ghent University. She has published on late fifteenth-and early sixteenth-century literature and civic culture in the Southern Low Countries.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Consistori del Gay Saber of Toulouse (1323-c. 1484)	p. 17
Patrons of Poetry: Rouen's Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of Our	p. 33
The Joyful Companies of the French-Speaking Cities and Towns of the Southern Netherlands and their Dramatic Culture (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)	p. 79
Chambers of Rhetoric: Performative Culture and Literary Sociability in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands	p. 119
The Basoche in the Late Middle Ages: A School of Technical savoir-faire	p. 159
The Roman 'Academy' of Pomponio Leto: From an Informal Humanist Network to the Institution of a Literary Society	p. 181
The Companies of Meistergesang in Germany	p. 219
The Heritage of the Umidi: Performative Poetry in the Early Accademia Fiorentina	p. 257
The Accademia degli Alterati and Civic Virtue	p. 285
Seventeenth-Century Academies in the City of Granada: A Comparatist Approach	p. 309
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)	p. 337
Reading the Universal Book of Nature: The Accademia dei Lincei in Rome (1603-1630)	p. 353
Alles zu Nutzen-The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (1617-1680) as a German Renaissance Academy	p. 389
Epilogue Arjan van Dixhoorn	p. 423
Appendix Questionnaire: The Reach of the Republic of Letters	p. 463
Bibliography	p. 469
Name Index	p. 503
Subject Index	p. 515
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