TY - BOOK AU - Lepri,Valentina TI - Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University: Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595-1627) T2 - Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions SN - 9789004398115 AV - BD21 U1 - 110 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Leiden, , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Philosophy KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Metaphysics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- The Akademia Zamojska: Shaping a Renaissance University -- Migration and Knowledge -- Philosophical Skills for Political Life -- Afterword -- Annex -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index of Names N2 - Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University focuses on the teaching and cultural activities of the Akademia Zamojska, one of the most renowned universities of Central-Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Age. The Akademia Zamojska played its own part in the debate on the methodology of politics as a discipline, also offering an original contribution to the development of the concept of ‘political prudence’ which was to become so popular in the universities of Central Europe in this period. The institution embodied a largely successful attempt to knit up closer connections between the world of intellectual culture and that of political praxis UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004398115 ER -