Research Catalog

Title

Scholarly knowledge : textbooks in early modern Europe / edited by Emidio Campi ... [et al.].

Publication

Genève : Librairie Droz, 2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Campi, Emidio

Description

445 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers and pupils must begin with the sobering realization that the field includes many books that the German word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind. The early modern classroom was shaken by the same knowledge explosion that took place in individual scholars' libraries and museums, and transformed by the same printers, patrons and vast cultural movements that altered the larger world it served. In the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the urban grammar school, the German Protestant Gymnasium and the Jesuit College, all of which did so much to form the elites of early modern Europe, took shape; the curricula of old and new universities fused humanistic with scholastic methods in radically novel ways. By doing so, they claimed a new status for both the overt and the tacit knowledge that made their work possible. This collected volume presents case studies by renowned experts, among them Ann Blair, Jill Kraye, Juergen Leonhardt, Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer and Nancy Siraisi.

Series Statement

Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance ; no 447

Uniform Title

Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance no 447.

Subject

• 1600-1700
• Textbooks > Europe > History > Congresses
• Europe > Civilization > Study and teaching > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Congresses (form)

Note

• "This book owes its origin to a conference held at Zurich in December 2005."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Textbooks and the disciplines / Anthony T. Grafton -- Student manuscripts and the textbook / Ann Blair -- The knowledge of science and the knowledge of the classroom : using the Heidelberg catechism (1563) to examine overlooked connections / Daniel Tröhler -- Classics as textbooks : a study of the humanist lectures on Cicero at the University of Leipzig, ca. 1515 / Jürgen Leonhardt -- Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) and the ancient languages / Peter Stotz -- Melanchthon's textbooks on dialectic and rhetoric as complementary parts of a theory of argumentation / Volkhard Wels -- Establishing modes of learning : old and new Hebrew grammars in the 16th century / Anja-Silvia Goeing -- Teaching physics in Louvain and Bologna : Frans Titelmans and Ulisse Aldrovandi / David A. Lines -- From text to the body : commentaries on De anima, anatomical practice and authority around 1600 / Simone De Angelis -- Textbooks and their uses : an insight into the teaching of geography in 16th century Zurich / Urs B. Leu -- Teaching stoic moral philosophy : Kaspar Schoppe's Elementa philosophiae Stoicae moralis (1606) / Jill Kraye -- Medicina practica : Girolamo Mercuriale as teacher and textbook author / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Jakob Ruf's Trostbüchlein and De conceptu (Zurich 1554) : a textbook for midwives and physicians / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller and Hubert Steinke -- Learning the law / Donald R. Kelley -- Catholic and Protestant textbooks in elementary Latin conversation : manuals of religious combat or guide to avoiding conflict? / Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer -- Peter Martyr Vermigli as a teacher at the Schola Tigurina / Emidio Campi -- Elementary textbooks in the 18th century and their theory of the learning child / Jürgen Oelkers.

ISBN

• 9782600011860
• 2600011862

OCLC

• 280846956
• SCSB-10915482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library