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Daum's boys : schools and the republic of letters in early modern Germany /

This highly original book is the first in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters. Its subject, the polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, is today completely forgotten, yet left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European sc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Alan S., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies in early modern European history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'A veritabl gem' : urban culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau
  • The finished scholar : convincing oneself and convincing others
  • The virtues of diversity : pedagogical innovation and contested curricula
  • Violent aspirations : pupils' transgression and the spectre of university
  • Learning by wrong-doing : aspiration and transgression among Zwickau pupils
  • Networks, patronage and exploitation : correspondence and the next generation of scholars
  • Conclusion : civic communities, humanist education and the 'Age of Enlightenment.'