Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France

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Page Range:: 191–206

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436206_008

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As in all regions of Europe, public disputations in Ancien Regime France were a central part of French academic life. The printed sets of theses that many students distributed beforehand give a good idea of the main thrust of the subsequent debate, and enough examples still exist, especially in medicine, to allow historians to chart the changing content of the higher-education curriculum across the Bourbon centuries. This essay begins by introducing the surviving sources in French libraries and archives and discusses why fewer theses can be found than might be expected. It proceeds to examine the different formats in which the theses were printed, explores the use of dedications, and argues that few were embellished with even simple illustrations because of cost. It ends by emphasising the conservative and predictable nature of most disputations, but shows that the soutenance could on occasion be used to float novel and sometimes unorthodox ideas, especially when professors wanted to give a personal hobby horse a public airing.

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Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

丛编： Intersections, 卷： 71

ISBN:: 9789004436206

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 13 Nov 2020

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