Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies. Ramus and Reform : : University and Church at the End of the Renaissance / / James Veazie Skalnik.

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• VerfasserIn: Skalnik, James Veazie,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

Educator and reformer Peter Ramus (1515-72) was known for his rash assaults on the most esteemed and cherished foundations of religion and learning in France. As a leading figure in both the French Reform and the University of Paris, and author of the pedagogical system known as ";Ramism,"; he consistently promoted an ideology which would make status, influence, and authority dependent on talent and achievement, instead of on birth or wealth. His social ideal attracted a sizeable following and achieved some practical results during his lifetime, but after his death his reforms collapsed. In their place arose the hierarchical, oligarchic, and authoritarian society of Old Regime France. Skalnik presents fresh and solid research in this well-written volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Labor Omnia Vincit -- CHAPTER 2 Praeceptor Galliae -- CHAPTER 3 Professor Regius -- CHAPTER 4 Deligere Aureum Saeculum -- CHAPTER 5 Nemo Nisi Vocatus -- CHAPTER 6 Respublica Timocratia -- APPENDIX A Royal Professors, 1530–1610 -- APPENDIX B Editions of Ramus’s Works, 1540–1640 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index