Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Dirk van Miert ,
Dirk Van Miert
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 179
Weight: 0.917kg
ISBN: 9789004176850
ISBN 10: 9004176853
Pages: 434
Publication Date: 31 July 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
Through careful analysis of this corpus of texts embracing a broad range of disciplines, Van Miert exhibits not only mastery of the neo-Latin language of academic teaching with its disciplinary varieties, but above all 'that' he is able to reconstruct the intellectual background and the doctrinal scope of teaching at the Amsterdam Atheneaeum during the seventeenth century. Willem Frijhoff, History of Universities Volume XXV, No. 2 (2011) pp. 173-179. Clear, graceful and thorough, this is a distinguished and rewarding contribution to the history of higher education. Joseph M. McCarthy (Suffolk University) in Seventeenth-Century News, 2010:68, 3-4.
Through careful analysis of this corpus of texts embracing a broad range of disciplines, Van Miert exhibits not only mastery of the Neo-Latin language of academic teaching with its disciplinary varieties, but above all 'that' he is able to reconstruct the intellectual background and the doctrinal scope of teaching at the Amsterdam Atheneaeum during the seventeenth century. Willem Frijhoff, History of Universities Volume XXV, No. 2 (2011) pp. 173-179. ''Clear, graceful and thorough, this is a distinguished and rewarding contribution to the history of higher education.'' Joseph M. McCarthy (Suffolk University) in Seventeenth-Century News, 2010:68, 3-4.
Author Information
Dirk van Miert, Ph.D. (2004) in Latin, University of Amsterdam, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. He has published on many aspects of early modern intellectual history and is co-editor of the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger.
