Daum's Boys : schools and the Republic of Letters in early modern Germany / Alan S. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Alan S., 1978- author.

Series:

Studies in early modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Secondary--Germany--History--17th century.

Education, Secondary.

Daum, Christian, 1612-1687.

Daum, Christian.

Republic of Letters (Society).

Learning and scholarship--Germany--History--17th century.

Learning and scholarship.

Schools--Germany--History--17th century.

Schools.

Intellectual life.

History.

Germany--Intellectual life--17th century.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This highly original book is the first in-depth English language study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, is today almost completely forgotten, yet he left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. On the basis of this unique source, the book portrays schools as focal points of a whole world of Lutheran learning outside of universities and courts, as places not just of education but of intense scholarship, and examines their significance for German culture. Protestant Germany was different from Catholic France and Protestant England in that its network of small cities fostered educational and cultural competition and made possible a much larger and socially open Republic. This book allows us for the first time to understand how the Republic of Letters was constructed from below and how it was possible for individuals from relatively humble backgrounds and occupations to be at the centre of European intellectual life. This book is aimed at other specialists as well as postgraduate students in the fields of history, education and gender studies, and can also serve as an introduction to recent European literature on early modern scholarship for undergraduate students. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'A veritable gem': urban culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau 25

2 The finished scholar: convincing oneself and convincing others 59

3 The virtues of diversity: pedagogical innovation and contested curricula 92

4 Violent aspirations: pupils' transgression and the spectre of university 123

5 Learning by wrong-doing: aspiration and transgression among; Zwickau pupils 145

6 Networks, patronage and exploitation: correspondence and the next generation of scholars 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780719090899

071909089X

OCLC:

895729347