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Humanism in an Age of Science

The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-07-31
Mått160 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt917 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor434
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004176850

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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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.