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 volume suggests pathways for future research into institutional hierarchies, cultural ties, and how networks of policy makers were embedded in complex scholarly and scientific developments. Topics include institutions and political entanglements; locality and mobility, especially the movement of scholars and scholarship between institutions; communication, collaboration, and the circulation of academic knowledge. The essays use studies of print and book cultures to provide insights into cooperative interregional markets, travel and trade.
Anja-Silvia Goeing is Professor at the University of Zurich and Associate Professor of History at Harvard. She authored Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich (Brill, 2017) and co-edited Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton UP, 2020).
Glyn Parry is Professor at the University of Roehampton, London. He published The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale UP, 2012) and (with Dr Cathryn Enis) Shakespeare Before Shakespeare: Stratford, Warwickshire and the Elizabethan State (Oxford UP, 2020).
Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the Republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematiciansâ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560â1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe (2019), co-edited with Giulia Giannini.
Editorsâ Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAnja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, and Mordechai Feingold
PARTÂ 1 The Political Entanglement of Institutions
1âColleges and the University of Paris, Professors and Students, Religion and Politics: Some Remarks on the History of Europe in the Late Middle Ages (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
ââAndreas Sohn
2âStructures and Networks of Learning in Early Modern Bologna
ââDavid A. Lines
3âChurch and State: Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State Government
ââAnja-Silvia Goeing
4âThe Beginnings of the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1652â1687) and the Character of German Intellectual Life
ââIan Maclean
5âThe Academy, the University and Cultural Warfare: The Case of Thomas Digges (1546â1595)
ââGlyn Parry
PARTÂ 2 Locality and Mobility:Â Institutions, the Migration of Scholars, and Scholarships
8âA Multifaceted Educational Landscape: The Dutch and Their Schools in and outside the Dutch Republic
ââWillem Frijhoff
9âSchemes for Studentsâ Mobility in Protestant Switzerland during the Sixteenth Century
ââKarine Crousaz
10âDomestic Grammar Schools and Overseas Colleges in the Formation of Irish Catholic Clergy (1560â1620)
ââThomas OâConnor
11âThe Importance of Location: The Eighteenth-Century University and the Intellectual Rendez-Vous
ââLaurence Brockliss
PARTÂ 3Communication, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Academic Knowledge
12âPerforming Networks and Relationships on Stage at the Early Modern Universities: Theater and Ritual at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court
ââElizabeth Sandis
13âDefacing Euclid: Reading and Annotating the Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain
ââBenjamin Wardhaugh
14âArchibald Pitcairne
âHeterodoxy and Its Milieu in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
ââMichael Hunter
15âThe Collections of the University of Aberdeen, 1495â1807: Centers and Peripheries, Networks and Culture
ââPeter Davidson and Jane Stevenson
PARTÂ 4 Cooperative Interregional Worlds:Â Production, Markets, Travel and Trade
16âThe Messengers of the Nations of the University of Paris and the Book Trade (Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)
ââMartina Hacke
17âThe Cooperation between Professors and Printers in Basel and Zurich during the Early Modern Period
ââUrs B. Leu
18âTypologies and Pharmaceutical Markets: The Reception of Pseudo-Mesueâs Schriftencorpus in Print
ââIolanda Ventura
19âTraveling Salesmen or Scholarly Travelers?: Early Modern Botanists on the Move Marketing Their Knowledge of Nature
ââAlette Fleischer
20ââAbroad Colleges,â Print Culture, and Book Collections: The Irish Colleges, Paris, 1676â1794
ââLiam Chambers
Bibliography of Secondary Literature
Index
Scholars and postgraduate students seeking new approaches to the history of early modern higher learning through a deeper appreciation of its political, intellectual, cultural and religious context.