Educating the Catholic People : Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (1500-1800).
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- History of Early Modern Educational Thought Series ; v.3 .
- History of Early Modern Educational Thought Series .
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1 State of Research and Historiographical Problems -- Chapter 1 Educating the Modern Catholics?: Roots of Catholic Schools in Renaissance Italy (15th-16th cc.) -- 1 The Last Phase of Communal Education in Italy -- 1.1 Complexity of the Renaissance Communal School System -- 1.2 Weaknesses of the Renaissance Communal School System -- 2 The Catholicization of Italian Education -- Chapter 2 Historical Paths: The Definition of Pedagogical Identities (16th-17th cc.) -- 1 Male Religious Orders -- 1.1 An Educational Benchmark: The Jesuits -- 1.2 The Barnabites -- 1.3 The Somascans -- 1.4 The Piarists -- 1.5 The Theatines and the Servites -- 2 Female Religious Orders -- 2.1 The Ursulines -- 2.2 The Angelic Sisters and the Guastalla College -- 2.3 Rosa Venerini and Lucia Filippini: The Pious Teachers -- Chapter 3 Schools and Colleges: Processes of Settlement in Italy and Contiguous Areas -- 1 From Lombardy to the Kingdom of France -- 2 Schools for Northern Italy and Small Towns -- 3 A Congregation for the Large Cities -- 4 Between Central, Southern and Eastern Europe -- 5 The Franciscans between Continuity and Rupture -- Chapter 4 Different Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders -- 1 Public Education Entrusted to Religious Orders and Secular Priests -- 1.1 Udine and the Barnabites: On the Outskirts of the Peninsula -- 1.2 Jesuits and Piarists in the Duchy of Modena: A Competition between Local Networks -- 1.3 Guastalla: A Multi-layered Religious Education for the Community -- 2 Episcopal Requests -- 2.1 The Somascans between Schools and Diocesan Seminaries -- 3 Other Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders -- 3.1 Barnabite Schools Established by Notables and Aristocrats -- 3.2 The Religious as Private Teachers. 3.3 Women, Nuns, Teachers: The 'Educandato' of Saint Charles -- Chapter 5 The End of an Educational Season: The Schools of Religious Orders between Scientific and Political Revolutions (17th-18th cc.) -- 1 The Scientific Culture: Religious Orders on the Eve of Modernity -- 1.1 Famiano Michelini and the Galilean Piarists -- 1.2 Baranzano Redento -- 2 School Reforms in the Age of Enlightenment -- 2.1 The European Situation -- 2.2 The Situation in Italy: The Italian States and the Religious Orders -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Consulted Archives -- Published Sources -- Early Printed Books (before 1830) -- Modern Bibliography (after 1830) -- Index.
In Educating the Catholic People, Salomoni offers a new perspective on the pedagogical, institutional, and political innovations introduced in Italy by religious teaching congregations between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.