TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bergin,Joseph
AU  - Roberts,Penny
AU  - Ross,Alan
AU  - Naphy,William G.
TI  - Daum's Boys: Schools and the Republic of Letters in Early Modern Germany
T2  - Studies in Early Modern European History Series
SN  - 9781784991708
U1  - 943.04 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on currencies and translations -- Introduction -- Schools as 'knowledge places' -- Scholars and community in the seventeenth century -- The setting: Zwickau -- Sources and approach -- Notes -- 1 'A veritable gem': urban culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau -- The context and the competition: pre-university education in seventeenth-century Saxony -- Local education and central government -- The historical background: a great school for a great city -- The urban environment -- Going to school -- Living in the town: teachers and lodgers -- The school and urban culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The finished scholar: convincing oneself and convincing others -- Daum's education and early career -- Looking and acting the scholar: dress and the representation of knowledge -- Daum marries -- Specialisation and polyhistoria: Daum builds a research profile -- Building a legacy -- Notes -- 3 The virtues of diversity: pedagogical innovation and contested curricula -- Zwickau and the Qur'an -- Dissatisfaction with Melanchthon: Ratke and the pedagogical reform movement -- Daum and Komenský: a 'misunderstanding' -- A book list of 1652 -- Rhenius: the 'practical pedagogue' -- Daum's appointment: the council asserts itself -- Daum's response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The pupils: educational strategies and social mobility -- Records and methodology -- General trends of pupil numbers: decline and a new beginning -- The peregrinatio scholastica -- Enrolment behaviour and educational choices -- Educational profiles -- The age and social background of the pupils -- Trajectories and careers -- Conclusion -- Notes; 5 Violent aspirations: pupils' transgression and the spectre of university -- Negotiation through transgression: the importance of context -- Sawfferrey u. Jungfrawn gelack: night-time revelry and its consequences -- Writing and duelling: learning the elite culture of violence -- Swords and playfighting -- The influence of student culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Networks, patronage and exploitation: correspondence and the next generation of scholars -- Why write letters? Correspondence and the Respublica litteraria -- Networks of clusters: collecting people -- Recruitment and exploitation: the next generation -- What Daum got out of it -- What pupils got out of it -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: civic communities, humanist education and the 'Age of Enlightenment' -- Crisis and education: Zwickauers and their school after the Thirty Years War -- Variation, not rebellion: Lutheran Latin schools and German culture -- Notes -- Appendices -- Dates of the Zwickau school -- Staff of the Zwickau Latin school in the seventeenth century -- Rectors -- Co-rectors -- Tertii -- Christian Daum, 1612-87 -- Christian Daum's authored volumes and editions of classical and medieval texts -- Works by Caspar von Barth, edited by Daum -- Collections of letters and posthumous publications -- Bibliography -- Unpublished primary material -- Ratsschulbibliothek (RSB) Zwickau -- Nachlass Daum -- Nachlass Zechendorf -- Miscellaneous -- Stadtarchiv (St A) Zwickau -- Archiv der Nicolaigemeinde Zwickau -- Ephoralarchiv Zwickau -- Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden -- Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, Weimar -- Archeological information -- Published primary material -- Secondary literature -- Index
N2  - The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar
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