Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures, Graphs and Tables -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks -- Kapitel 3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild -- Part 1 Britain -- Chapter 4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England -- Chapter 5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford -- Chapter 6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge -- Part 2 France -- Chapter 7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France -- Chapitre 8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska -- Part 3 Germany, Austria and Switzerland -- Chapter 9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus's "An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat" -- Chapter 10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600 -- Chapter 11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg -- Chapter 12 On the Early Reception of John Brown's Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794-1795 -- Chapter 13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations -- Chapter 14 David Pareus's Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy -- Chapter 15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584-1651) -- Chapter 16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism -- Chapter 17 Bismi 'llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran. Chapter 18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century -- Chapter 19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century -- Chapter 20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg -- Chapter 21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750 -- Chapter 22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow) -- Chapter 23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833) -- Part 4 Scandinavia and the Baltics -- Chapter 24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century -- Chapter 25 Corollaries and Dissertations -- Chapter 26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations -- Chapter 27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius' Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658) -- Chapter 28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century -- Chapter 29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier -- Chapter 30 Johann Brever and Herodotus' Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium -- Chapter 31 'Monstrum Rationis Status': Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743-1747 -- Chapter 32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations -- Chapter 33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium -- Index Nominum.
This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.