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Sacred Words and Worlds
Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550-1700
Av Zur Shalev
Inbunden, 2011
2314 kr
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In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, …
Sixth Scottish University
The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799
Inbunden, 2011
2365 kr
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For more than two centuries in which Catholicism was illegal in Scotland, the Scots Colleges abroad operated as a sixth Scottish university. During this time the university’s alumni, individually and collectively, helped to ensure the survival of Catholicism in Scotland through political and …
National, Nordic or European?
Nineteenth-Century University Jubilees and Nordic Cooperation
Inbunden, 2011
2184 kr
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Whereas nineteenth-century university jubilees traditionally led to the writing of histories that celebrated an individual university, in this volume they have inspired instead a stimulating comparative approach that studies jubilees themselves across Northern Europe. Starting from the bicentenary …
University Jubilees and University History Writing
A Challenging Relationship
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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Researching and writing its history has always been one of the tasks of the university, particularly on the occasion of anniversary celebrations. Through case studies of Prague (1848, 1948), Oslo (1911), Cluj (from 1919), Leipzig (2009) and Trondheim (2010), this book shows the continuity of the …
Generational Conflict and University Reform
Oxford in the Age of Revolution
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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This book offers a fresh interpretation of a series of ground-breaking reforms introduced at the University of Oxford in the first half of the nineteenth century. Innovations such as competitive examination, a uniform syllabus and a broad range of degree subjects are often seen as products of the …
Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism
Inbunden, 2012
3090 kr
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In Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle’s thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impact on the sciences and …
Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities, 1945-1990
Inbunden, 2013
2890 kr
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In Failure of American and Soviet Cultural Imperialism in German Universities, 1945-1990 Natalia Tsvetkova describes the American and Soviet policies in German universities during the Cold War. In both parts of divided Germany the conservative professorate resisted both the American and Soviet …
Science in the Vanished Arcadia
Knowledge of Nature in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and Río de la Plata
Inbunden, 2014
3248 kr
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In Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious …
Sincere and Teachable Heart
Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of …
Humboldtian Tradition
Origins and Legacies
Inbunden, 2014
2349 kr
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In The Humboldtian Tradition, eleven scholars consider Wilhelm von Humboldt as a historical phenomenon and a contemporary symbol. Inspired by the growing body of literature that in recent years has problematized the modern research university, they put Humboldt’s basic academic principles into …
Making the New World Their Own
Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery
Av Qiong Zhang
Inbunden, 2015
3774 kr
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In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed …
Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson, c. 1569-1613
The Life and Letters of a Renaissance Scholar
Av Paul Botley
Inbunden, 2016
3420 kr
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Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson (d. 1613), best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired in his own day for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson. It maps his connections with his contemporaries, reconstructs his reading, and edits …
Duncan Liddel (1561-1613)
Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance
Inbunden, 2016
2846 kr
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This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and …
Archival Afterlives
Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives
Av Vera Keller
Inbunden, 2018
2218 kr
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Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the …
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2017
2284 kr
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Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where …
Lynx and the Telescope
The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo
Inbunden, 2017
2464 kr
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Set in the context of Counter-Reformation Rome, this book focuses on the twenty-year long relationship (1611-1630) between Galileo Galilei and Federico Cesi, the founder of the Academy of the Lynx-eyed. Contrary to the historiographical tradition, it demonstrates that the visions of Galileo and …
Critical Monks
The German Benedictines, 1680–1740
Inbunden, 2019
2260 kr
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Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe.Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first …
Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord
Erudition and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible
Inbunden, 2018
2713 kr
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The centrality of the King James Bible to early modern culture has been widely recognized. Yet for all the vast literature devoted to the masterpiece, little attention has been paid either to the scholarly scaffolding of the translation or to the erudition of the translators. The present volume …
Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2019
2257 kr
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This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe—including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae …
Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and Its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779
A Key Moment in the History of a Learned Institution
Inbunden, 2020
2309 kr
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Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments. The key moment was the decision …
Unifying Enlightenment
Institutions of Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Spain (1700–1808)
Inbunden, 2020
2296 kr
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This book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the areas of print culture (the press, merchants’ handbooks, teaching materials), education (university chairs in political economy and commerce) and the organisation of financial matters at state …
Early Modern Universities
Networks of Higher Learning
Inbunden, 2020
2727 kr
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Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education publishes twenty essays on early modern institutional academic networks and the history of the book. The case studies examine universities, schools, and academies across a wide geographical range throughout Europe, and in Central America. The …
Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age
Comparative Approaches
Inbunden, 2021
2249 kr
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Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age is …
“So noble a design”
The Foundation and Early History of Gresham College, London 1565–1710
Inbunden, 2023
3274 kr
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In this erudite book, Ian Adamson provides a comprehensive history of Gresham College in the seventeenth century, particularly its contribution to the intellectual, educational, and administrative life of London and England. He analyses its relationship with the Tudor and Stuart courts, the …
Moses among the Moderns
German Constructions of Biblical Law, 1750–1930
Inbunden, 2024
1711 kr
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A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of religious controversy, especially on 'the Jewish question', with new models for understanding faith, …
Physics in Minerva’s Academy
Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c.1750
Inbunden, 2025
1958 kr
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This monograph explains how, in the aftermath of the battle over René Descartes’ philosophy, Newton’s natural philosophy found fertile ground at the University of Leiden. Newton’s natural philosophical views and methods, along with their underlying distinctions, seamlessly aligned with the …
Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
Inbunden, 2012
2439 kr
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Matter and form have been fundamental principles in natural science since Greek Antiquity and their apparent rejection during the seventeenth century typically has been described as a precursor to the emergence of modern science. This volume reconsiders the fate of these principles and the complex …
