Vices of the Learned : Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices / edited by Sjang ten Hagen and Herman Paul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagen, Sjang ten, editor.

Paul, Herman, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 362

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholars--Intellectual life.

Scholars.

Scholars--Conduct of life.

Scholars--Professional ethics.

Contemporary History.

Early Modern History.

History.

Intellectual History.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

History, Modern.

Local Subjects:

Contemporary History.

Early Modern History.

Intellectual History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoramic overview of qualities, habits, and inclinations that scholars at various times and places saw as detrimental to their work. Innovative is the volume’s longue durée approach. The volume breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of “low” genres (aphorisms, proverbs, anecdotes) and stereotypical figures (the pedant, the charlatan, the mammon) in transmitting vices over time.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Euthalian Tradition and Its Features

2 Additional Items Not Catalogued

3 The Corpus

4 Using the Catalogue

5 Using the Feature Inventory

6 The Euthalian Tradition and Catenae: A Test Case

Catalogue

A Substantial Witnesses (22)

B Intermediate Witnesses (245)

C Chapter Lists and/or Hypotheses Only (264)

D In-Text Annotations Only (19)

E Miscellaneous Witnesses (40)

F Fragmentary Witnesses (37)

G Manuscripts with No Euthalian Material (162)

H Manuscripts Not Marked in the Catalogue (106)

Features Inventory

Catena Cross-Reference List

Bibliography

Gregory-Aland and Ditykon Number Index

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices

Herman Paul

Part 1 Vice Terms

2 Tracing the Development of curiositas in Early Condemnations of the University

From Academics’ Useless Curiosity to Education for Productive Action

Richard Newhauser

3 Notes towards a History of “Prejudice,” Early to Late Modern

Sorana Corneanu

4 Dogmatism: the Persistence of an Umbrella Term

Alexander Stoeger

5 Scholasticism as a Scholarly Vice Term: from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

Sjang ten Hagen

Part 2 Figurations of Vice

6 The Persistence of the Pedant

Arnoud Visser

7 The Many Lives of the Charlatan: on the Persistence of an Embodiment of Scholarly Vices

Marian Füssel

8 From the Novum Organum to the Forensic Crime Lab: the Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Idols of the Mind

Edurne De Wilde

9 The Mammon Metaphor in American Science: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1890–2010

Pieter Huistra and Herman Paul

Part 3 Media of Circulation

10 Medical Vices and Proverbial Expressions in Eighteenth-Century Medical Dissertations on Moderation, Patience, and Trust

Sari Kivistö

11 Mocking Medieval Minds: How Modern Histories of Science Transmitted Scholarly Vices

12 Student Advice Literature and the Vice of Uninformed Studying: from Hodegetik to Study Vlogs

Anne Por

13 Conclusion: How and Why Scholarly Vices Persisted over Time

Sjang ten Hagen and Herman Paul

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-72505-9

9789004725058

OCLC:

1543625235

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004725058 DOI