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Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 71
From the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities. This genre is especially attractive as it deals with the most significant cultural and scientific innovations of the early modern period, such as the printing revolution and the development of new methods in philosophy, education and scholarly exchange via personal networks.
Until recently, academic disputations have attracted comparatively little scholarly attention. This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive study of the early modern disputation culture, both through theoretical discussions and overviews, and numerous case studies that analyze particular features of disputations in various European regions.
Until recently, academic disputations have attracted comparatively little scholarly attention. This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive study of the early modern disputation culture, both through theoretical discussions and overviews, and numerous case studies that analyze particular features of disputations in various European regions.
Meelis Friedenthal, Ph.D. (2008, Tartu) is Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual History at the University of Tartu. He has published edited volumes and articles on early modern book history, theology and philosophy.
Hanspeter Marti, Dr. phil. (1980, Basel) is head of the Arbeitsstelle für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen in Engi/Switzerland. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on early modern cultural history. His research focuses on the history of disputations.
Robert Seidel, Dr. phil. (1994, Heidelberg) is Professor of German literature at the Goethe-University, Frankfort on the Main. He has published books and articles on German and Latin literature of the early modern period as well as critical editions of several Neo-Latin authors.
Hanspeter Marti, Dr. phil. (1980, Basel) is head of the Arbeitsstelle für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen in Engi/Switzerland. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on early modern cultural history. His research focuses on the history of disputations.
Robert Seidel, Dr. phil. (1994, Heidelberg) is Professor of German literature at the Goethe-University, Frankfort on the Main. He has published books and articles on German and Latin literature of the early modern period as well as critical editions of several Neo-Latin authors.
“The text on the cover text of this collection of nearly a thousand pages explains that “from the 16th through the 18th century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities.” The three editors confirm this claim with thirty-two case studies by different authors, investigating the topic of early modern printed disputations.”
“Research on disputations, occupying as it does a somewhat marginal place in historical scholarship, is rendered more accessible to a wider audience through the use of English especially because of the book’s concentration on some more peripheral regions of Europe. This should be applauded.”
“ One can only hope that this avenue of research will be continued because there is still so much to discover, which, thanks to the progressing digitization of the sources, is now much easier.”
Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 8.
“Research on disputations, occupying as it does a somewhat marginal place in historical scholarship, is rendered more accessible to a wider audience through the use of English especially because of the book’s concentration on some more peripheral regions of Europe. This should be applauded.”
“ One can only hope that this avenue of research will be continued because there is still so much to discover, which, thanks to the progressing digitization of the sources, is now much easier.”
Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 8.
List of Figures, Graphs and Tables
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction
Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel
2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks
Donald Felipe
3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild
Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke
4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England
Lucy R. Nicholas
5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford
Tommi Alho
6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge
William M. Barton
7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
Laurence Brockliss
8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska
Véronique Meyer
9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”
Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600
Ulrich Schlegelmilch
11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg
Sabine Schlegelmilch
12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795
Arvo Tering
13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations
Sari Kivistö
14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy
Gábor Förköli
15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651)
Joseph S. Freedman
16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism
Isabella Walser-Bürgler
17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran
Reinhold F. Glei
18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century
Jan-Hendryk de Boer
19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century
Stephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff
20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg
Raf Van Rooy
21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750
Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller
22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow)
Daria Barow-Vassilevitch
23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833)
Urs B. Leu
24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century
Meelis Friedenthal
25 Corollaries and Dissertations
Bo Lindberg
26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations
Peter Sjökvist
27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658)
Tua Korhonen
28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century
Janika Päll
29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier
Johanna Akujärvi
30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium
Kaarina Rein
31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747
Andreas Hellerstedt
32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations
Bernd Roling
33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium
Axel Hörstedt
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction
Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel
2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks
Donald Felipe
3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild
Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke
part 1: Britain
4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England
Lucy R. Nicholas
5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford
Tommi Alho
6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge
William M. Barton
part 2: France
7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
Laurence Brockliss
8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska
Véronique Meyer
part 3: Germany, Austria and Switzerland
9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”
Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo
10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600
Ulrich Schlegelmilch
11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg
Sabine Schlegelmilch
12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795
Arvo Tering
13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations
Sari Kivistö
14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy
Gábor Förköli
15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651)
Joseph S. Freedman
16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism
Isabella Walser-Bürgler
17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran
Reinhold F. Glei
18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century
Jan-Hendryk de Boer
19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century
Stephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff
20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg
Raf Van Rooy
21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750
Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller
22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow)
Daria Barow-Vassilevitch
23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833)
Urs B. Leu
part 4: Scandinavia and the Baltics
24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century
Meelis Friedenthal
25 Corollaries and Dissertations
Bo Lindberg
26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations
Peter Sjökvist
27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658)
Tua Korhonen
28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century
Janika Päll
29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier
Johanna Akujärvi
30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium
Kaarina Rein
31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747
Andreas Hellerstedt
32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations
Bernd Roling
33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium
Axel Hörstedt
Index Nominum
All interested in the field of early modern scholarship, especially the history of universities and academic teaching, and anyone concerned with the diffusion of knowledge in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Keywords: disputations, dissertations, early modern history, history of universities, thesis broadsheet, paratexts, translations, dissertations in Greek, history of philosophy, history of medicine, University of Uppsala, Ramism, reception of Descartes, history of religion, history of ideas, Enlightenment, Aristotelianism.