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A Global Earth in the Classroom
New Voices in the History of Early Modern Education
Series: - History of Early Modern Educational Thought, Volume: 5
Editor:
This volume offers a scholarly examination of educational history, highlighting the pivotal role of educational practices from the late medieval era to the early modern period. It provides a dynamic forum for emerging academics in the field, revealing fresh, multifaceted perspectives on the educational methods of this era. The work illuminates the sophisticated educational systems that shaped Renaissance Milan's merchants and the education of cantors in royal courts and cathedrals. Spanning from Brazil to India, it traces the extensive reach of Jesuit influence and reveals how their teachings fostered an early consciousness of a globally interconnected world in European education.
Contributors to this volume: Bradley Blankemeyer, Laura Madella, Jessica Ottelli, Federico Piseri, David Salomoni, and Carolina Vaz de Carvalho.
Contributors to this volume: Bradley Blankemeyer, Laura Madella, Jessica Ottelli, Federico Piseri, David Salomoni, and Carolina Vaz de Carvalho.
David Salomoni, Ph.D. (1986) is an Assistant Professor in the History of Education at the University for Foreigners of Siena. He has published Educating the Catholic People: Religious Orders and Theirs Schools in Early Modern Italy (2021)
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Educational Worlds in the First Globalization
David Salomoni
1 Credit and Courtesy Educating the Merchant in Renaissance Milan
Federico Piseri
2 Under the Musical Law Teaching Music to Rule the Earth in Europe,
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Century
Jessica Ottelli
3 Jesuit Education in Colonial Brazil, 1549–1759 An Overview
Carolina Vaz de Carvalho
4 “For These Parts of Infidels Great Learning Is Not Needed” Jesuit Education and Pedagogical Responsibilities in the Early Modern Indian Subcontinent
Bradley Blankemeyer
5 Apology of Human Geography in Daniello Bartoli’s Work
Laura Madella
6 From ‘La Sfera’ to the Atlas Transformations in the Early Modern Geography Textbooks, 1400–1800
David Salomoni
Index
Introduction Educational Worlds in the First Globalization
David Salomoni
1 Credit and Courtesy Educating the Merchant in Renaissance Milan
Federico Piseri
2 Under the Musical Law Teaching Music to Rule the Earth in Europe,
Jessica Ottelli
3 Jesuit Education in Colonial Brazil, 1549–1759 An Overview
Carolina Vaz de Carvalho
4 “For These Parts of Infidels Great Learning Is Not Needed” Jesuit Education and Pedagogical Responsibilities in the Early Modern Indian Subcontinent
Bradley Blankemeyer
5 Apology of Human Geography in Daniello Bartoli’s Work
Laura Madella
6 From ‘La Sfera’ to the Atlas Transformations in the Early Modern Geography Textbooks, 1400–1800
David Salomoni
Index
The book is designed for a wide audience. Given the broad subject and global slant it may be of interest to scholars of history of education as well as scholars of global history, but also to Jesuit scholars and book historians. Keywords: Jesuit studies, Colonial Brazil, Portuguese India, book history, history of music, Renaissance Italy, education of the merchant, history of geography, Daniello Bartoli, La Sfera.