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Book SynopsisFrom the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities. This genre is especially attractive as it deals with the most significant cultural and scientific innovations of the early modern period, such as the printing revolution and the development of new methods in philosophy, education and scholarly exchange via personal networks. Until recently, academic disputations have attracted comparatively little scholarly attention. This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive study of the early modern disputation culture, both through theoretical discussions and overviews, and numerous case studies that analyze particular features of disputations in various European regions.
Trade Review“The text on the cover text of this collection of nearly a thousand pages explains that “from the 16th through the 18th century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities.” The three editors confirm this claim with thirty-two case studies by different authors, investigating the topic of early modern printed disputations.” “Research on disputations, occupying as it does a somewhat marginal place in historical scholarship, is rendered more accessible to a wider audience through the use of English especially because of the book’s concentration on some more peripheral regions of Europe. This should be applauded.” “ One can only hope that this avenue of research will be continued because there is still so much to discover, which, thanks to the progressing digitization of the sources, is now much easier.” Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 8.
Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel 2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks Donald Felipe 3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke part 1: Britain 4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England Lucy R. Nicholas 5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford Tommi Alho 6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge William M. Barton part 2: France 7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France Laurence Brockliss 8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska Véronique Meyer part 3: Germany, Austria and Switzerland 9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat” Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo 10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600 Ulrich Schlegelmilch 11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg Sabine Schlegelmilch 12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795 Arvo Tering 13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations Sari Kivistö 14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy Gábor Förköli 15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651) Joseph S. Freedman 16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism Isabella Walser-Bürgler 17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran Reinhold F. Glei 18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century Jan-Hendryk de Boer 19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century Stephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff 20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg Raf Van Rooy 21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750 Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller 22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow) Daria Barow-Vassilevitch 23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833) Urs B. Leu part 4: Scandinavia and the Baltics 24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century Meelis Friedenthal 25 Corollaries and Dissertations Bo Lindberg 26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations Peter Sjökvist 27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658) Tua Korhonen 28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century Janika Päll 29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier Johanna Akujärvi 30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium Kaarina Rein 31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747 Andreas Hellerstedt 32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations Bernd Roling 33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium Axel Hörstedt Index Nominum
