Vices of the Learned

Sjang ten Hagen is Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the project Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History at Leiden University.Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University. From 2019 to 2025, he led the project Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History, out of which this volume has emerged.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The Euthalian Tradition and Its Features2 Additional Items Not Catalogued3 The Corpus4 Using the Catalogue5 Using the Feature Inventory6 The Euthalian Tradition and Catenae: A Test CaseCatalogueA Substantial Witnesses (22)B Intermediate Witnesses (245)C Chapter Lists and/or Hypotheses Only (264)D In-Text Annotations Only (19)E Miscellaneous Witnesses (40)F Fragmentary Witnesses (37)G Manuscripts with No Euthalian Material (162)H Manuscripts Not Marked in the Catalogue (106)Features InventoryCatena Cross-Reference ListBibliographyGregory-Aland and Ditykon Number IndexAcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly VicesHerman PaulPart 1 Vice Terms2 Tracing the Development of curiositas in Early Condemnations of the UniversityFrom Academics’ Useless Curiosity to Education for Productive ActionRichard Newhauser3 Notes towards a History of “Prejudice,” Early to Late ModernSorana Corneanu4 Dogmatism: the Persistence of an Umbrella TermAlexander Stoeger5 Scholasticism as a Scholarly Vice Term: from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First CenturySjang ten HagenPart 2 Figurations of Vice6 The Persistence of the PedantArnoud Visser7 The Many Lives of the Charlatan: on the Persistence of an Embodiment of Scholarly VicesMarian Füssel8 From the Novum Organum to the Forensic Crime Lab: the Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Idols of the MindEdurne De Wilde9 The Mammon Metaphor in American Science: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1890–2010Pieter Huistra and Herman PaulPart 3 Media of Circulation10 Medical Vices and Proverbial Expressions in Eighteenth-Century Medical Dissertations on Moderation, Patience, and TrustSari Kivistö11 Mocking Medieval Minds: How Modern Histories of Science Transmitted Scholarly VicesSjang ten Hagen12 Student Advice Literature and the Vice of Uninformed Studying: from Hodegetik to Study VlogsAnne Por13 Conclusion: How and Why Scholarly Vices Persisted over TimeSjang ten Hagen and Herman PaulIndex