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Humanism in an age of science : the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the golden age, 1632-1704 /

Miert, Dirk van.

Humanism in an age of science : the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the golden age, 1632-1704 / by Dirk van Miert ; translated by Michiel Wielema, with Anthony Ossa-Richardson. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 179. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chapter One. Higher Education In The Low Countries / Chapter Two. An Amsterdam Cortege / Chapter Three. Private Teaching / Chapter Four. Public Teaching / Chapter Five. Semi-Public Teaching / Chapter Six. Holidays, Timetables And Absences / Chapter Seven. The Arts I: The Rhetorical Subjects / Chapter Eight. The Arts II: The Philosophical Subjects / Chapter Nine. The Teaching Of Law / Chapter Ten. The Teaching Of Medicine / Chapter Eleven. The Teaching Of Theology / Chapter Twelve. Conclusion / Appendix 1. Timeline Of Professors / Appendix 2. Geographical Origins Of Students Defending Disputations, 1650–1670 / Appendix 3. Easter And Pentecost Holidays At The Athenaeum / Sources / Index / D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert -- D.K.W. Van Miert.

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In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.

9789047430292

10.1163/ej.9789004176850.i-434 DOI

2009021766

GBA960572 bnb

015292871 Uk


Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)--History--17th century.
Universiteit van Amsterdam--History--17th century.


Education, Higher--History--Amsterdam--17th century.
Universities and colleges--History--Amsterdam--17th century.


Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Intellectual life--17th century.

LF4077 / .M5413 2009

378.492/352