Title Daum's boys : schools and the republic of letters in early modern Germany / Alan S. Ross

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series Studies in early modern European history Studies in early modern European history. Contents 'A veritabl gem' : urban culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau -- The finished scholar : convincing oneself and convincing others -- The virtues of diversity : pedagogical innovation and contested curricula -- Violent aspirations : pupils' transgression and the spectre of university -- Learning by wrong-doing : aspiration and transgression among Zwickau pupils -- Networks, patronage and exploitation : correspondence and the next generation of scholars -- Conclusion : civic communities, humanist education and the 'Age of Enlightenment.' Summary This highly original book is the first in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters. Its subject, the polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, is today completely forgotten, yet left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. On the basis of this unique source, this book portrays schools as focal points of a whole world of Lutheran learning outside of universities and courts, as places not just of education but of intense scholarship, and examines their significance for German culture.Multi-confessional Germany was different from Catholic France and Protestant England in that its network of small cities fostered educational and cultural competition and made possible a much larger and socially open Republic. This book allows us for the first time to understand how the Republic of Letters was constructed from below and how it was possible for individuals from relatively humble backgrounds and occupations to be at the centre of European intellectual life.This book is aimed at other specialists as well as postgraduate students in the fields of cultural and social history, and can also serve as an introduction to recent European literature on early modern scholarship for undergraduate students Analysis Christian Daum Gerald Strauss German culture German education Holy Roman Empire Latin schools Lutheran schooling humanist education intense scholarship network of correspondents pedagogical method seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters social mobility teacher-scholars Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015) Subject Daum, Christian, 1612-1687. SUBJECT Daum, Christian, 1612-1687 Daum, Christian, 1612-1687 fast Subject Republic of Letters (Society) SUBJECT Republic of Letters (Society) fast Subject Education, Secondary -- Germany -- History -- 17th century Learning and scholarship -- Germany -- History -- 17th century Schools -- Germany -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. HISTORY -- Medieval. Education, Secondary Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Schools SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781784991708 1784991708

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