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

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

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Author / Creator:	Miert, Dirk van.
Uniform title:	Illuster onderwijs. English
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 433 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 179 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 179.
Subject:	Universiteit van Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century. Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- History -- 17th century. Athenaeum Illustre (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Universiteit van Amsterdam. Education, Higher -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century. Universities and colleges -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century. Education, Higher. Intellectual life. Universities and colleges. Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. Netherlands -- Amsterdam. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208786

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ISBN:	9789047430292 9047430298 1282602136 9781282602137 9789004176850 9004176853 9786612602139 6612602139
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.
Other form:	Print version: Miert, Dirk van. Illuster onderwijs. English. Humanism in an age of science. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004176850
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004176850.i-434

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 433 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789047430292 9047430298 1282602136 9781282602137 9789004176850 9004176853 9786612602139 6612602139
ISSN:	0920-8607 ;