Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics

Paul F. Grendler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780860789895
• eBook ISBN: 9781040242933
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovative in their approaches to schools and universities as the Renaissance. At the same time, religious and political concerns strongly influenced educational developments. This third volume of articles by Paul F. Grendler explores the close connections between education, religion, and politics at several levels and in different contexts. It combines detailed research into various kinds of schools with broad overviews of European and especially Italian education. The lead article compares Italian and German universities and assesses the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the latter. Even Erasmus, the great critic of university theologians, felt the need to acquire a doctorate in theology and did so. In Italy, the new schools of the Jesuits and the Piarists taught boys and young men gratis, but not without opposition. Two articles deal with students, the consumers of education. While teachers and students were most directly involved in schools and universities, ecclesiastical and political authorities, including the leaders of the Republic of Venice, the subject of the final study, kept a watchful eye on them.

Table of contents

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• Preface
• I The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation Renaissance Quarterly 57. New York, 2004
• II How to Get a Degree in Fifteen Days: Erasmus' Doctorate of Theology from the University of Turin Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 18. Lexington, KY, 1998
• III Students of the Schools and Students of the University English translation of 'Studenti della studium', in L'universià e studenti dello Studium', in L'universitci e la sua storia. Origini, spazi istituzionali e pratiche didattiche dello Studium cittadino. Atti del Convegno di Studi (Arezzo, 15-16 novembre 1991), ed. Paolo Renzi. Siena: Protagon Editori Toscani, 1998, pp. 133-145
• IV What Piero Learned in School: Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Education First published in: Piero della Francesca and His Legacy, ed. Marilyn Aronberg Lavin. Studies in the History of Art 48. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Hanover and London: The University Press of New England, 1995, pp. 161-174
• V Italian Schools and University Dreams during Mercurian's Generalate The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture 1573-1580, ed. Thomas M. McCoog, S. J. Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2004
• VI The Attempts of the Jesuits to Enter Italian Universities in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries English translation of 'I tentativi dei gesuiti d'entrare nelle università italiane tra '500 e '600', in Gesuiti e università in Europa (secoli XVI-XVIII). Atti del Convegno di studi, Parma 13-15 dicembre 2001, ed. Gian Paolo Brizzi and Roberto Greci. Bologna: CLUEΒ, 2002, pp. 37-51
• VII The Piarists of the Pious Schools Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation: In Honor of John C. Olin on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. Richard L. DeMolen. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994
• VIII Renaissance Humanism, Schools, and Universities First published in: L 'Étude de la Renaissance nunc et eras. Actes du colloque de la Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts d'Étude de la Renaissance (FISIER), Genève, septembre 2001, ed. Max Engammare, Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, Augustin Redondo and Saverio Ricci. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2003, pp. 69-91
• IX Man is Almost a God: Fra Battista Carioni Between Renaissance and Catholic Reformation Humanity and Divinity in Renaissance and Reformation: Essays in Honor of Charles Trinkaus, ed. John W. O'Malley, Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993
• X The Adages of Paolo Manuzio: Erasmus and the Roman Censors In Laudem Caroli: Renaissance and Reformation Studies for Charles G. Nauert, ed. James V. Mehl. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 49. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press [now Truman State University Press], 1998
• XI The Leaders of the Venetian State, 1540-1609: a Prosopographical Analysis Studi veneziani N. S. 19 (1990). Istituto di Storiàdella Società e dello Stato Veneziano. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 1991
• Index