Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers andpupils must begin with the sobering realization that the field includes many books that theGerman word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind. The early modernclassroom was shaken by the same knowledge explosion that took place in individual scholars'libraries and museums, and transformed by the same printers, patrons and vast culturalmovements that altered the larger world it served.
In the fifteenth through seventeenthcenturies, the urban grammar school, the German Protestant Gymnasium and the JesuitCollege, all of which did so much to form the elites of early modern Europe, took shape; thecurricula of old and new universities fused humanistic with scholastic methods in radicallynovel ways. By doing so, they claimed a new status for both the overt and the tacit knowledgethat made their work possible.
This collected volume presents case studies by renownedexperts, among them Ann Blair, Jill Kraye, Jürgen Leonhardt, Barbara Mahlmann-Bauerand Nancy Siraisi.
Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers andpupils must begin with the sobering realization that the field includes many books that theGerman word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind. The early modernclassroom was shaken by the same knowledge explosion that took place in individual scholars'libraries and museums, and transformed by the same printers, patrons and vast culturalmovements that altered the larger world it served.
In the fifteenth through seventeenthcenturies, the urban grammar school, the German Protestant Gymnasium and the JesuitCollege, all of which did so much to form the elites of early modern Europe, took shape; thecurricula of old and new universities fused humanistic with scholastic methods in radicallynovel ways. By doing so, they claimed a new status for both the overt and the tacit knowledgethat made their work possible.
This collected volume presents case studies by renownedexperts, among them Ann Blair, Jill Kraye, Jürgen Leonhardt, Barbara Mahlmann-Bauerand Nancy Siraisi.