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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
This entry contains six subentries, dealing with academies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, ...

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The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)
are societies or institutions for the cultivation and promotion of literature, the arts or science, or of some particular branch ...

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
in the post-classical sense began in the 15th c. as another aspect of the humanists' discovery of the Graeco-Roman ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
An association of artists, scholars, etc. that aims to maintain professional standards and to promote the affairs of its members. The original Academy was an olive grove outside Athens ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
The learned societies of Renaissance Europe adopted the term ‘academy’ in imitation of the Academy established by Plato, whose school was named after Academus, the mythical hero who was ...
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