Scholarly self-fashioning and community in the early modern university / / edited by Richard Kirwan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452434403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-05920-4; 1-317-05919-0; 1-315-60771-9; 1-299-39823-5; 1-4094-3798-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KirwanRichard; DaviesJonathan <1966->
• Disciplina: 378.4
• Soggetti: Universities and colleges - Europe - History; Education, Higher - Europe - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: scholarly self-fashioning and the cultural history of universities / Richard Kirwan -- The ideal student: manuals of student behaviour in early modern Italy / Jonathan Davies -- Academic exchanges: letters, the Reformation and scholarly self-fashioning / Kenneth Austin -- Johannes Eck (1486-1543): academic career and self-fashioning around 1500 / Ingo Trüter -- From individual to archetype: occasional texts and the performance of scholarly identity in early modern Germany / Richard Kirwan -- A struggle for nobility: "nobilitas literaria" as academic self-fashioning in early modern Germany / Marian Füssel -- The social metaphysics of professors: divine providence, academic charisma, and witchcraft / Andreas Corcoran -- The idolater John Owen: linguistic hegemony in Cromwell's Oxford / Gráinne mclaughlin -- Irish student identity at the University of Paris: a case study / Jason Harris.
• Sommario/riassunto: A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major ; political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time university scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in thi