Ways to Learn, Ways to Reshape Knowledge: Pico della Mirandola and the Students’ Handbooks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: The Genesis of the Text: Stories of Lessons, Manuscripts, Books, and Editions
6. From the Lecture Hall to the Confessional Frontier: Student Notebook Production and the Transmission of Biblical Knowledge from Leuven 11
7. A Typographical Evolution in the Louvain Lectures on Logic? How Students Used Printed Textbooks between 1474 and 1532 47
8. The “Histoire Totale” of Francesco Panigarola’s (1548– 1594) Trattato della Memoria Locale through Stemma Codicum and the Materiality of Books 69
9. A Different View of Innovation and International Knowledge Exchange from Classroom Notes: The University of Edinburgh, 1604–1650 93
10. The Pen and the School: The Function and Circulation of Manuscripts in the Teaching Practices of the Zamość Academy in the First Decades of the 17th Century 121
11. Part II: Academies and Surroundings
12. The Ideals and Practices of the Study of Ramist Dialectics and Rhetoric in Academia Gustaviana (1632 –1665) 149
13. Students at Home: Young Scholars among Pinelli’s Circle in 16th-Century Padua 177
14. Ways to Learn, Ways to Reshape Knowledge: Pico della Mirandola and the Students’ Handbooks 207
15. “Oportet in Philosophia haereticum esse”: Pietro Pomponazzi’s Teaching against the Grain 225
16. Index of Names 241