Early Modern Universities

Anja-Silvia Goeing is Professor at the University of Zurich and Associate Professor of History at Harvard. She authored Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich (Brill, 2017) and co-edited Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton UP, 2020).Glyn Parry is Professor at the University of Roehampton, London. He published The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale UP, 2012) and (with Dr Cathryn Enis) Shakespeare Before Shakespeare: Stratford, Warwickshire and the Elizabethan State (Oxford UP, 2020).Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the Republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe (2019), co-edited with Giulia Giannini.

"By providing remarkable national syntheses and original one-off analyses, by refusing to present old institutional forms in opposition to new ones but rather seeking to examine their connections, this work contributes to renewing the field of the history of universities and scholarly culture in early modern Europe and, I hope, will motivate research to follow this new path." - Lyse Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1095–1096

• Editors’ PrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAnja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai FeingoldPART 1The Political Entanglement of Institutions1 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)Andreas Sohn2 Structures and Networks of Learning in Early Modern BolognaDavid A. Lines3 Church and State: Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State GovernmentAnja-Silvia Goeing4 The Beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652–1687) and the Character of German Intellectual LifeIan Maclean5 The Academy, the University and Cultural Warfare: The Case of Thomas Digges (1546–1595)Glyn ParryPART 2Locality and Mobility: Institutions, the Migration of Scholars, and Scholarships6 Domestic AcademiesJane Stevenson7 The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain: A Plural LandscapeYarí Pérez Marín8 A Multifaceted Educational Landscape: The Dutch and Their Schools in and outside the Dutch RepublicWillem Frijhoff9 Schemes for Students’ Mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the Sixteenth CenturyKarine Crousaz10 Domestic Grammar Schools and Overseas Colleges in the Formation of Irish Catholic Clergy (1560–1620)Thomas O’Connor11 The Importance of Location: The Eighteenth-Century University and the Intellectual Rendez-VousLaurence BrocklissPART 3Communication, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge12 Performing Networks and Relationships on Stage at the Early Modern Universities: Theater and Ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of CourtElizabeth Sandis13 Defacing Euclid: Reading and Annotating the Elements of Geometry in Early Modern BritainBenjamin Wardhaugh14 Archibald PitcairneHeterodoxy and Its Milieu in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century EdinburghMichael Hunter15 The Collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495–1807: Centers and Peripheries, Networks and CulturePeter Davidson and Jane StevensonPART 4Cooperative Interregional Worlds: Production, Markets, Travel and Trade16 The Messengers of the Nations of the University of Paris and the Book Trade (Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)Martina Hacke17 The Cooperation between Professors and Printers in Basel and Zurich during the Early Modern PeriodUrs B. Leu18 Typologies and Pharmaceutical Markets: The Reception of Pseudo-Mesue’s Schriftencorpus in PrintIolanda Ventura19 Traveling Salesmen or Scholarly Travelers?: Early Modern Botanists on the Move Marketing Their Knowledge of NatureAlette Fleischer20 “Abroad Colleges,” Print Culture, and Book Collections: The Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676–1794Liam ChambersBibliography of Secondary LiteratureIndex