Early Modern Universities : Networks of Higher Learning

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education publishes twenty essays on early modern institutional academic networks and the history of the book. The case studies examine universities, schools, and academies across a wide geographical range throughout Europe, and in Central America. The volume suggests pathways for future research into institutional hierarchies, cultural ties, and how networks of policy makers were embedded in complex scholarly and scientific developments. Topics include institutions and political entanglements; locality and mobility, especially the movement of scholars and scholarship between institutions; communication, collaboration, and the circulation of academic knowledge. The essays use studies of print and book cultures to provide insights into cooperative interregional markets, travel and trade.

Contributors: Laurence Brockliss, Liam Chambers, Liam Chambers, Peter Davidson, Mordechai Feingold, Alette Fleischer, Willem Frijhoff, Anja- Silvia Goeing, Martina Hacke, Michael Hunter, Urs B. Leu, David A. Lines, Ian Maclean, Thomas O’Connor, Glyn Parry, Yarí Pérez Marín, Elizabeth Sandis, Andreas Sohn, Jane Stevenson, Iolanda Ventura, and Benjamin Wardhaugh.

Anja-Silvia Goeing is Professor at the University of Zurich and Associate Professor of History at Harvard. She authored Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich (Brill, 2017) and co-edited Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton UP, 2020).
Glyn Parry is Professor at the University of Roehampton, London. He published The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale UP, 2012) and (with Dr Cathryn Enis) Shakespeare Before Shakespeare: Stratford, Warwickshire and the Elizabethan State (Oxford UP, 2020).
Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the Republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560–1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe (2019), co-edited with Giulia Giannini.