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History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/2
This book covers a mix of learned articles and book reviews, which discusses academic moral philosophy and noble virtues. It includes topics about Rodrigo de Arriaga in Prague, Nicolaus Andreae Granius, and academic writing in early modern ethics. It also discusses Johann Bartold Niemeier, the Nicomachean ethics and the teaching of rhetoric at the Akademia Zamojska, and emblematic pedagogy and Nuremberg civic culture. The book captures the richness and diversity of teachings on ethics in early modern universities by clearly illustrating the workings of the teaching of ethics from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth-century from Spain to Prague. It describes the Protestant universities in the German territories and the regions of central Europe in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis
Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
Between Encyclopedia and Chorography
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.
Tracts of Action
This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kind, on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and many other subjects, flooded the book market in the first centuries of printing. As varied as these subjects are the research questions that we might ask: How do you learn practical skills from a book? Why were these books so popular, who used them and how, and can they even be considered to be a clearly defined genre...
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis
Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2018, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Albacete (Spain) on the theme of “Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”. This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben
Hiob Ludolf (1624-1704) and Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679), the master and his erstwhile student could not be more different. Ludolf was a celebrated member of the Republic of Letters and the towering authority on Ethiopian studies. Wansleben, himself a brilliant scholar and, unlike Ludolf, a seasoned traveller in the Middle East, converted to Catholicism and eventually died impoverished and marginalized. Both stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia and spent a formative part of their career in middle sized Duchy of Saxe-Gotha which for several years played a pivotal role in Ethiopian-European encounters. This volume offers in-depth studies of the remarkable life and work of these two scholars in a broader intellectual, political, and confessional context.
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia
This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.
Wissen und Geltung
Wissen, so der Tenor der neueren wissensgeschichtlichen Forschung, wird generiert durch historisch spezifische Strategien der Validierung, Autorisierung, Inszenierung und Ästhetisierung. Solche Strategien lassen sich als Mechanismen der Geltungserzeugung begreifen, durch die Wissen (temporär) als wahr, wertvoll oder gültig ausgezeichnet respektive in seiner Geltung bestritten wird. Wissen und Geltung stehen folglich in einem dynamischen Verhältnis zueinander. Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dieser Konstellation aus interdisziplinärer kulturhistorischer Perspektive. Die Beiträge fokussieren aussagekräftige Fallbeispiele aus Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit und entwickeln Fragen und Analy...
Anmerckungen – Die Selbstkommentare Daniel Caspers von Lohenstein zu seinen Trauerspielen
Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparate des barocken Dichters Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1638) zu seinen Trauerspielen. Zentrale These der Studie ist, dass in den ‚Anmerckungen‘ ein interpretatorisches Potenzial liegt, das erst durch konsequentes Ausdeuten der intertextuellen Beziehungen zwischen Anmerkungs- und Dramentext ein umfassendes Verständnis von Lohensteins Trauerspielen möglich macht. Neben einer ausführlichen Funktionstypologie der ‚Anmerckungen‘ bietet die Arbeit eine Deutung ihrer Form mit Hilfe dreier Konzepte (‚Bibliothek‘, ‚Hypertext‘ und ‚Kommentar‘), die die Untersuchung in rezente Forschungsdiskurse einbettet. ...
Magnes: Der Magnetstein und der Magnetismus in den Wissenschaften der Frühen Neuzeit
In Magnes Christoph Sander explores the research on magnetism in the early modern period and draws a comprehensive panorama of all fields of study investigating this surprising phenomenon.
