Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Meelis Friedenthal, Ph.D. (2008, Tartu) is Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual History at the University of Tartu. He has published edited volumes and articles on early modern book history, theology and philosophy. Hanspeter Marti, Dr. phil. (1980, Basel) is head of the Arbeitsstelle für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen in Engi/Switzerland. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on early modern cultural history. His research focuses on the history of disputations. Robert Seidel, Dr. phil. (1994, Heidelberg) is Professor of German literature at the Goethe-University, Frankfort on the Main. He has published books and articles on German and Latin literature of the early modern period as well as critical editions of several Neo-Latin authors.

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Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors



1 Introduction

 Meelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel



2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation Handbooks

 Donald Felipe



3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und Memorialbild

 Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke



part 1: Britain

4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in England

 Lucy R. Nicholas



5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century Oxford

 Tommi Alho



6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and Cambridge

 William M. Barton



part 2: France

7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France

 Laurence Brockliss



8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie Leczinska

 Véronique Meyer



part 3: Germany, Austria and Switzerland

9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”

 Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo



10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600

 Ulrich Schlegelmilch



11 The Scientific Revolution in Marburg

 Sabine Schlegelmilch



12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795

 Arvo Tering



13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin Dissertations

 Sari Kivistö



14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy

 Gábor Förköli



15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651)

 Joseph S. Freedman



16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and Josephinism

 Isabella Walser-Bürgler



17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the Koran

 Reinhold F. Glei



18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th Century

 Jan-Hendryk de Boer



19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th Century

 Stephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff



20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in Wittenberg

 Raf Van Rooy



21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750

 Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller



22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow)

 Daria Barow-Vassilevitch



23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833)

 Urs B. Leu



part 4: Scandinavia and the Baltics

24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th Century

 Meelis Friedenthal



25 Corollaries and Dissertations

 Bo Lindberg



26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations

 Peter Sjökvist



27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658)

 Tua Korhonen



28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th Century

 Janika Päll



29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and Earlier

 Johanna Akujärvi



30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic Gymnasium

 Kaarina Rein



31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747

 Andreas Hellerstedt



32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University Disputations

 Bernd Roling



33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium

 Axel Hörstedt



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