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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810954703321

Titolo

Early modern universities : networks of higher learning / / edited by Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44405-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 501 pages) : illustrations

Collana

History of Science and Medicine Library

Disciplina

378.40902

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - Europe - History

Europe Intellectual life 16th century

Europe Intellectual life 17th century

Europe Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingoldpart  -- Colleges and the University of Paris, professors and students, religion and politics : some remarks on the history of Europe in the Late Middle Ages (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) / Andreas Sohn -- Structures and networks of learning in early modern Bologna / David A. Lines -- Church and state : sixteenth century higher education in Zurich and its ties to the city-state government / Anja-Silvia Goeing -- The beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652-1687) and the character of German intellectual life / Ian Maclean -- The academy, the university and cultural warfare : the case of Thomas Digges (1546-1595) / Glyn Parry -- Domestic academies / Jane Stevenson -- The circulation of knowledge in early colonial New Spain : a plural landscape / Yarí Pérez Marín -- A multifaceted educational landscape : the Dutch and their schools in and outside the Dutch Republic  / Willem Frijhoff -- Schemes for students' mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the sixteenth century / Karine Crousaz -- Domestic grammar schools and overseas colleges in the formation of Irish Catholic clergy (1560-1620) / Thomas O'Connor -- The importance of location the eighteenth-century university and the



intellectual rendez-vous / Laurence Brocklisspart -- Performing networks and relationships on stage at the early modern universities : theater and ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court / Elizabeth Sandis -- Defacing Euclid : reading and annotating the elements of geometry in early modern Britain / Benjamin Wardhaugh -- Archibald Pitcairne : heterodoxy and its milieu in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Michael Hunter -- The collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495-1807 : centers and peripheries, networks and culture / Peter Davidson and Jane Stevensonpart -- The messengers of the nations of the University of Paris and the book trade (late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) / Martina Hacke -- The cooperation between professors and printers in Basel and Zurich during the early modern period / Urs B. Leu -- Typologies and pharmaceutical markets : the reception of pseudo-Mesue's Schriftencorpus in print / ZIolanda Ventura -- Traveling salesmen or scholarly travelers? : early modern botanists on the move marketing their knowledge of nature / Alette Fleischer -- "Abroad colleges," print culture, and book collections the Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676-1794 / Liam Chambers.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book contains twenty essays by expert scholars of higher learning in the early modern period. Together they discuss topics that historians of universities have largely ignored: notably the extensive collaboration, and occasional conflicts, between university scholars, instructors, and administrators on the one hand, and students at academies, independent and dependent colleges, gymnasia, and Latin schools on the other. The contributions also cover a wide geographical range, covering universities, schools, academies, and the history of the book, in many European states, and Latin America"--