Includes bibliographical references and index.

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