Dirk van Miert, Ph.D. (2004) in Latin, University of Amsterdam, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. He has published on many aspects of early modern intellectual history and is co-editor of the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger.

• AcknowledgementsPART I: A HISTORYIntroduction1. Higher Education in the Low Countries 2. An Amsterdam CortegePART 2: TEACHING PRACTICES3. Private teaching4. Public teaching5. Semi-public teaching6. Holidays, timetables and absencesPART 3: THE CONTENTS OF TEACHING7. The arts I: the rhetorical subjects8. The arts II: the philosophical subjects9. The teaching of law10. The teaching of medicine11. The teaching of theologyPART 4: CONCLUSION AND APPENDICES12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of professors Appendix 2: Geographical origins of students defending disputations, 1650-1670Appendix 3: Easter and Pentecost holidays at the AthenaeumSourcesIndex

"Through careful analysis of this corpus of texts embracing a broad range of disciplines, Van Miert exhibits not only mastery of the Neo-Latin language of academic teaching with its disciplinary varieties, but above all 'that' he is able to reconstruct the intellectual background and the doctrinal scope of teaching at the Amsterdam Atheneaeum during the seventeenth century." Willem Frijhoff, History of Universities Volume XXV, No. 2 (2011) pp. 173-179.''Clear, graceful and thorough, this is a distinguished and rewarding contribution to the history of higher education.''Joseph M. McCarthy (Suffolk University) in Seventeenth-Century News, 2010:68, 3-4.

Dirk van Miert, Ph.D. (2004) in Latin, University of Amsterdam, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. He has published on many aspects of early modern intellectual history and is co-editor of the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger.

• AcknowledgementsPART I: A HISTORYIntroduction1. Higher Education in the Low Countries 2. An Amsterdam CortegePART 2: TEACHING PRACTICES3. Private teaching4. Public teaching5. Semi-public teaching6. Holidays, timetables and absencesPART 3: THE CONTENTS OF TEACHING7. The arts I: the rhetorical subjects8. The arts II: the philosophical subjects9. The teaching of law10. The teaching of medicine11. The teaching of theologyPART 4: CONCLUSION AND APPENDICES12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of professors Appendix 2: Geographical origins of students defending disputations, 1650-1670Appendix 3: Easter and Pentecost holidays at the AthenaeumSourcesIndex

"Through careful analysis of this corpus of texts embracing a broad range of disciplines, Van Miert exhibits not only mastery of the Neo-Latin language of academic teaching with its disciplinary varieties, but above all 'that' he is able to reconstruct the intellectual background and the doctrinal scope of teaching at the Amsterdam Atheneaeum during the seventeenth century." Willem Frijhoff, History of Universities Volume XXV, No. 2 (2011) pp. 173-179.''Clear, graceful and thorough, this is a distinguished and rewarding contribution to the history of higher education.''Joseph M. McCarthy (Suffolk University) in Seventeenth-Century News, 2010:68, 3-4.

Dirk van Miert, Ph.D. (2004) in Latin, University of Amsterdam, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. He has published on many aspects of early modern intellectual history and is co-editor of the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger.

• AcknowledgementsPART I: A HISTORYIntroduction1. Higher Education in the Low Countries 2. An Amsterdam CortegePART 2: TEACHING PRACTICES3. Private teaching4. Public teaching5. Semi-public teaching6. Holidays, timetables and absencesPART 3: THE CONTENTS OF TEACHING7. The arts I: the rhetorical subjects8. The arts II: the philosophical subjects9. The teaching of law10. The teaching of medicine11. The teaching of theologyPART 4: CONCLUSION AND APPENDICES12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of professors Appendix 2: Geographical origins of students defending disputations, 1650-1670Appendix 3: Easter and Pentecost holidays at the AthenaeumSourcesIndex

"Through careful analysis of this corpus of texts embracing a broad range of disciplines, Van Miert exhibits not only mastery of the Neo-Latin language of academic teaching with its disciplinary varieties, but above all 'that' he is able to reconstruct the intellectual background and the doctrinal scope of teaching at the Amsterdam Atheneaeum during the seventeenth century." Willem Frijhoff, History of Universities Volume XXV, No. 2 (2011) pp. 173-179.''Clear, graceful and thorough, this is a distinguished and rewarding contribution to the history of higher education.''Joseph M. McCarthy (Suffolk University) in Seventeenth-Century News, 2010:68, 3-4.