Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University

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 characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book i

List of contents

Introduction Scholarly Self-Fashioning and the Cultural History of Universities, Richard Kirwan; Chapter 1 The Ideal Student: Manuals of Student Behaviour in Early Modern Italy, Jonathan Davies; Chapter 2 Academic Exchanges: Letters, the Reformation and Scholarly Self-Fashioning, Kenneth Austin; Chapter 3 Johannes Eck (1486–1543): Academic Career and Self-Fashioning around 1500, Ingo Trüter; Chapter 4 From Individual to Archetype: Occasional Texts and the Performance of Scholarly Identity in Early Modern Germany, Richard Kirwan; Chapter 5 A Struggle for Nobility: ‘Nobilitas literaria’ as Academic Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Germany, Marian Füssel; Chapter 6 The Social Metaphysics of Professors: Divine Providence, Academic Charisma and Witchcraft, Andreas Corcoran; Chapter 7 The Idolater John Owen? Linguistic Hegemony in Cromwell’s Oxford, Gráinne McLaughlin; Chapter 8 Irish Student Identity at the University of Paris: A Case Study, Jason Harris;

About the author

Richard Kirwan is a Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. His main research interests lie in the social and cultural history of early modern universities, early modern elites, and print culture. His first monograph, Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634, was published by Harrassowitz in Kommission in 2009.

Summary

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 characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book i

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Kirwan (Editor), Kirwan Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032926278
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92627-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Historiography, Christianity, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Historiography, Archaeology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards