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The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities

The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities

Kivisto, Sari

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004264124
ISBN13: 9789004264120
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 9 2014
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities, Sari Kivistö examines scholarly vices in the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods. Moral criticism of the learned was a favourite theme of Latin dissertations, treatises and satires written in Germany ca. 1670-1730. Works on scholarly pride, logomachy, curiosity and other vices kept the presses running at German Protestant universities as well as farther north. Kivistö shows how scholars constructed fame and how the process involved various means of producing celebrity. The book industry, plagiarism and impressive titles were all labelled dishonest means of advancing a career. In The Vices of Learning Kivistö argues that scholarly ethics was an essential part of the early modern intellectual framework.

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