Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Scholarly Self-Fashioning and the Cultural History of Universities -- 1 The Ideal Student: Manuals of Student Behaviour in Early Modern Italy -- 2 Academic Exchanges: Letters, the Reformation and Scholarly Self-Fashioning -- 3 Johannes Eck (1486-1543): Academic Career and Self-Fashioning around 1500 -- 4 From Individual to Archetype: Occasional Texts and the Performance of Scholarly Identity in Early Modern Germany -- 5 A Struggle for Nobility: 'Nobilitas literaria' as Academic Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Germany -- 6 The Social Metaphysics of Professors: Divine Providence, Academic Charisma and Witchcraft -- 7 The Idolater John Owen? Linguistic Hegemony in Cromwell's Oxford -- 8 Irish Student Identity at the University of Paris: A Case Study -- Bibliography -- Index.
A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time university scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in this period. It explores the reasons for this growing self-consciousness among scholars, and the effects of its expression - social and political, desired and real.