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Vices of the Learned

Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Sjang ten Hagen, Herman Paul, Sjang Ten Hagen

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Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoramic overview of qualities, habits, and inclinations that scholars at various times and places saw as detrimental to their work.Innovative is the volume’s longue durée approach. The volume breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of “low” genres (aphorisms, proverbs, anecdotes) and stereotypical figures (the pedant, the charlatan, the mammon) in transmitting vices over time.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-16
Mått155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt716 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor344
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004725041

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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