The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy : : Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna / / David A. Lines.

A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site of intellectual innovation and cultural exchange.The University of Bologna was among the premier universities in medieval Europe and an inter...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • Introduction: A Habitation of Learning and Wisdom
  • Part I The Institutional and Cultural Context
  • 1 The Academic Community and Its Overseers
  • 2 Teaching and Learning
  • 3 The University in Context
  • 4 The Culture of the Book
  • Part II New Directions and Developments in University Learning
  • 5 The Rise of the Humanities
  • 6 Specialization and Scientific Innovation
  • 7 From Theory to Practice
  • 8 The Religious Turn
  • Epilogue
  • APPENDIX: PREFACE TO THE TEACHING ROLL FROM 1586 –1587
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX