Early Modern Universities : Networks of Higher Learning.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Varieties of Institutions -- 2 The Political Entanglement of Institutions -- 3 Locality and Mobility: Institutions, the Migration of Scholars, and Scholarships -- 4 Communication, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge -- 5 Cooperative Interregional Worlds: Production, Markets, Travel, and Trade -- 6 Conclusion -- Part 1 The Political Entanglement of Institutions -- Chapter 1 Colleges and the University of Paris, Professors and Students, Religion and Politics: Some Remarks on the History of Europe in the Late Middle Ages (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1 The Formation and Development of Colleges -- 2 Regular Colleges -- 3 The Study of Theology -- 4 Concerning Religion and Politics in the Fifteenth Century -- 5 The "Doctors' Fresco" in Bolzano: a Memorial Testimony of Franciscan University Culture -- Chapter 2 Structures and Networks of Learning in Early Modern Bologna -- 1 The University and the Structures of Power -- 2 Bologna and Contemporary Cultural Currents -- 3 A Network of Institutions of Learning -- Chapter 3 Church and State: Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State Government -- 1 What Was the Zurich Lectorium? -- Chapter 4 The Beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652-1687) and the Character of German Intellectual Life -- 1 The Academia Naturae Curiosorum -- 2 The Academy's Visibility: the Monographs and the Miscellanea -- 3 Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and His Collegium -- 4 Johann Christian Sturm's De Authoritate Interpretum Naturae (1672) and His Collegium Experimentale (1679) -- 5 Conclusion.

Chapter 5 The Academy, the University and Cultural Warfare: The Case of Thomas Digges (1546-1595) -- Part 2 Locality and Mobility -- Chapter 6 Domestic Academies -- 1 Printers -- 2 Alchemists and Practical Scientists -- 3 Astronomy -- Chapter 7 The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain: A Plural Landscape -- Chapter 8 A Multifaceted Educational Landscape: The Dutch and Their Schools in and outside the Dutch Republic -- 1 The Academic Landscape before the Dutch Republic -- 2 The Emergence of the Dutch University System -- 3 Civic Culture and Academic Institutions -- 4 The Amsterdam Experience -- 5 Dissenters, Mennonites, and Catholics -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Schemes for Students' Mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the Sixteenth Century -- 1 Basel -- 2 Zurich -- 3 Bern -- 4 Lausanne -- 5 Geneva -- 6 Why Study Abroad? -- 7 The Impact of Confessions in the Choice of a Foreign University or Academy -- Chapter 10 Domestic Grammar Schools and Overseas Colleges in the Formation of Irish Catholic Clergy (1560-1620) -- 1 Patterns of Student Mobility -- 2 The Continental College Network Emerges -- 3 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 The Importance of Location: The Eighteenth-Century University and the Intellectual Rendez-Vous -- Part 3 Communication, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge -- Chapter 12 Performing Networks and Relationships on Stage at the Early Modern Universities: Theater and Ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court -- 1 Diplomatic Dramas: Jeopardizing Intercollegiate Relationships on the University Stage -- 2 The Role of Theatrical Spectacle in Cementing Alliances between the Student Communities of London -- 3 "[F]‌or the More Solemnity": the Use of Ritual to Ratify Hierarchical Relationships -- 4 Conclusion.

Chapter 13 Defacing Euclid: Reading and Annotating the Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain -- 1 The Copious Text: the Elements and Textual Scholarship from Ratdolt to Grynäus -- 2 Euclid in the Vernacular -- 3 Teaching Editions: Clavius and Others -- 4 Symbols and Algebra -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 14 Archibald Pitcairne: Heterodoxy and Its Milieu in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh -- Chapter 15 The Collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495-1807: Centers and Peripheries, Networks and Culture -- Part 4 Cooperative Interregional Worlds -- Chapter 16 The Messengers of the Nations of the University of Paris and the Book Trade (Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 17 The Cooperation between Professors and Printers in Basel and Zurich during the Early Modern Period -- 1 Professors as Authors -- 2 Distribution, Marketing, and Market Allocations -- 3 Libraries and Supplies of Books -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 18 Typologies and Pharmaceutical Markets: The Reception of Pseudo-Mesue's Schriftencorpus in Print -- 1 Pseudo-Mesue's Schriftencorpus: State of the Art -- 2 The Printed Mesue: Characteristics of Direct and Indirect Transmission -- 3 How to Assess the Impact of the Schriftencorpus? Some Considerations -- 4 Geography and Chronology -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 19 Traveling Salesmen or Scholarly Travelers?: Early Modern Botanists on the Move Marketing Their Knowledge of Nature -- 1 Paolo Boccone -- 2 Jacob Breyne -- 3 Herbarium: an Aide-Mémoire for Plants, Publications, and Patrons -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 20 "Abroad Colleges," Print Culture, and Book Collections: The Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676-1794 -- 1 Abroad Colleges -- 2 Print -- 3 Book Collections and Libraries -- 4 Book Collections, Libraries, and the Irish Colleges in Paris -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography of Secondary Literature -- Index.

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education contains twenty essays by experts on early modern academic networks. Using a variety of approaches to universities, schools, and academies throughout Europe and in Central America, the book suggests pathways for future research.

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