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Book SynopsisWhile many sources have been lost, scholars have devoted much time and effort to unearthing and analyzing the surviving material in Roman and European archives and libraries, allowing for a reassessment of Rome as a long-devalued place of university study. The term place of study (Studienort) is also intended to direct our attention beyond university institutions as such to the considerable range of locations for acquiring education that Renaissance Rome offered. The second section of the essay collection is dedicated in particular to a comparative, European view of two of the universities founded in the Holy Roman Empire north of the Alps within the context of a more general educational renewal: Trier and Mainz in 1473 and 1477, respectively. Taking the example of critiques of Rome and the pope, the volume’s closing essay illuminates selected controversies that also point to transalpine processes of perception and transfer on both sides of the Alps. The “national” and confessional discourses that developed above all from the sixteenth century on generated narratives that would have a lasting impact.
Table of ContentsScholars from the German-Speaking World in the Centers of Italian
Learning: Some Historiographical Notes.................................................................................
Roma docta: Rome as a Place of Study in the Renaissance.......................................................
Pomponius Laetus and the ultramontani..................................................................................
Nicholas of Cusa, his Familiars and the Anima........................................................................
Echternach, Rome and Trier: Stations of an Academic Career in the Renaissance...........................
Clerics from Worms and the Acquisition of Academic Degrees in Rome..............................
Sola fides sufficit. »German» University Graduates and Notaries in Rome, 1510/12............................
German-speaking Students in Cosmopolitan Rome: Ulrich von Hutten and Wilhelm von Enckenvoirt..........................
Studying in Renaissance Rome. Ultramontani as Students in Rome:Avenues and state of research..............................
Rome and Mainz: Italian and German Universities in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries......................................
Rome and the Early History of the University of Mainz...................................................
Holy Year, Nicholas V, and the Project of Trier University: Founding a University in Stages (1450–1473).......................
Vatican Sources and European University History.......................................
Critiques of the Pope and Rome in the Renaissance........................................
Bibliography.........................................................................
