Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University.

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A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time university scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kirwan, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > Europe > History.
Education, Higher > Europe > History.
Enseignement supérieur > Europe > Histoire.
Education, Higher
Universities and colleges
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: scholarly self-fashioning and the cultural history of universities / Richard Kirwan
  • The ideal student: manuals of student behaviour in early modern Italy / Jonathan Davies
  • Academic exchanges: letters, the Reformation and scholarly self-fashioning / Kenneth Austin
  • Johannes Eck (1486-1543): academic career and self-fashioning around 1500 / Ingo Trüter
  • From individual to archetype: occasional texts and the performance of scholarly identity in early modern Germany / Richard Kirwan
  • A struggle for nobility: "nobilitas literaria" as academic self-fashioning in early modern Germany / Marian Füssel
  • The social metaphysics of professors: divine providence, academic charisma, and witchcraft / Andreas Corcoran
  • The idolater John Owen: linguistic hegemony in Cromwell's Oxford / Gráinne mclaughlin
  • Irish student identity at the University of Paris: a case study / Jason Harris.

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