UID:
almahu_9949701589602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047430292
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2009
Uniform Title:
Illuster onderwijs.
Content:
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.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. Higher Education In The Low Countries /
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Chapter Two. An Amsterdam Cortege /
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Chapter Three. Private Teaching /
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Chapter Four. Public Teaching /
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Chapter Five. Semi-Public Teaching /
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Chapter Six. Holidays, Timetables And Absences /
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Chapter Seven. The Arts I: The Rhetorical Subjects /
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Chapter Eight. The Arts II: The Philosophical Subjects /
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Chapter Nine. The Teaching Of Law /
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Chapter Ten. The Teaching Of Medicine /
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Chapter Eleven. The Teaching Of Theology /
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Chapter Twelve. Conclusion /
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Appendix 1. Timeline Of Professors /
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Appendix 2. Geographical Origins Of Students Defending Disputations, 1650-1670 /
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Appendix 3. Easter And Pentecost Holidays At The Athenaeum /
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Sources /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Humanism in an age of science ISBN 9789004176850 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004176853 (hardback : alk. paper)
Language:
English
