Humanism in an age of science : the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the golden age, 1632-1704 /
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| Author / Creator: | Miert, Dirk van. |
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| Uniform title: | Illuster onderwijs. English |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. |
| Description: | xiv, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 179 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 179. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8062332 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004176850 9004176853 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
