[ { "id": "authors:w2tny-vyz16", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "w2tny-vyz16", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150301-170736977", "type": "book_section", "title": "Joseph Scaliger's Letters: Collaborator, Teacher, Impresario [Book review]", "book_title": "History of Universities", "author": [ { "family_name": "Haugen", "given_name": "Kristine Louise", "clpid": "Haugen-K-L" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "[Introduction]. Joseph Scaliger was the most famous humanist in northern Europe after\nthe time of Erasmus. This enormous correspondence will yield major\ndiscoveries for many decades, and it will also make some convenient\northodoxies impossible to sustain. We assume, for instance, that humanistic\nstudy flourished in private academies, courts, and noble houses, and\nwas all but strangled in its crib in the early modern universities. But\nScaliger published erratically while he lived in the retinue of a French\ngentleman, then moved at the age of 53 to a lucrative professorial chair\nat Leiden, where he started a period of relentless productivity and\ncompulsive involvement in others' scholarly projects. As for Scaliger's\npersonal world, the letters graphically reveal that his brilliance was far\nfrom making him solitary. Instead\u2014especially once his position at\nLeiden attracted the attention of supplicants from across Europe\u2014Scaliger\nplanned other people's projects for them, admonished them about\ntheir progress, sent them notes and contributions of his own, and advised\nthem on the best places to print. In short, not only was Scaliger a great\nscholar, he was also a collaborator and teacher of tremendous energy.\nFinally, the letters show that Scaliger's interests stretched even wider\nthan his well-known publications disclose. This, too, connected him\nwith a series of communities across Europe. Anthony Grafton's intellectual\nbiography of Scaliger has long been a landmark for understanding\nboth the scholarship of this era and its most extraordinary\npractitioner. But the new availability of Scaliger's correspondence\nwill excite fresh generations of inquiry, because the letters can answer\nvirtually inexhaustible questions about the period, limited only by the\nimagination of the historian.", "isbn": "9780198726340", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "place_of_publication": "New York", "publication_date": "2014-10-09", "pages": "105-147" }, { "id": "authors:xh1r3-gve90", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "xh1r3-gve90", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150301-170534361", "type": "book_section", "title": "Academic Charisma and the Old Regime [Book Review]", "book_title": "History of Universities", "author": [ { "family_name": "Haugen", "given_name": "Kristine Louise", "clpid": "Haugen-K-L" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "[Introduction]. At last, the history of universities has its Les mots et les choses. In this attractive\nand ambitious book, William Clark presents a story at once broad and focused.\nHis canvas is the German university, from the origins to the nineteenth century;\nthe subject of his portrait is the German professor, who often threatens, like a\nQuattrocento sitter, to leap out of the frame and confront us in the flesh. The\nprofessor, Clark argues, took on a recognizably modern incarnation in the late\neighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His intellectual life was now adorned\nby a publication record, a specialized academic field, and squadrons of emulous\nstudents. At the same time, the professor's institutional world changed dramatically.\nMost visibly at the universities of Gottingen, Halle, and Jena, the state\ntook on a sharply increased authority in academic affairs, chiefly by requiring\nregular documentation of the professor's teaching and publications. One might\nhave expected the average academic to wither under the conditions of life as a\nmicromanaged civil servant. But the German professoriate flourished, producing\nthe classicists C. G .. Heyne, F. A. Wolf, and Gottfried Hermann, not to mention\nKant, Schelling, Hegel, and the orientalist A. W Schlegel. The 'academic\ncharisma' of Clark's title not only suggests the explosive intellectual power of\nthese generations. It also encapsulates the paradox on which Clark's analysis\npivots: that the superstar intellectuals of nineteenth-century Germany, who are\ncredited with transforming so many disciplines, rose to fame both by fulfilling\ntheir job descriptions and by appearing to exceed them radically.", "isbn": "9780199227488", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "place_of_publication": "New York", "publication_date": "2007-09-07", "pages": "199-228" }, { "id": "authors:4k276-hvw16", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "4k276-hvw16", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150301-165541089", "type": "book_section", "title": "Imagined Universities: Public Insult and the Terrae Filius in Early Modern Oxford", "book_title": "History of Universities", "author": [ { "family_name": "Haugen", "given_name": "Kristine Louise", "clpid": "Haugen-K-L" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Feingold", "given_name": "Mordechai", "clpid": "Feingold-M" } ], "abstract": "[Introduction]. \nOn a Saturday afternoon in July of 1669, a master of arts named\nHenry Gerard rose to address a crowd of academics and spectators\nin the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. A public Act for granting degrees\nwas in progress, and nominally, Gerard was one of several opponents\nwho were to challenge the incepting master of arts William\nWatts in a ceremonial disputation on three philosophical topics: Is\nknowledge memory (An scientia sit reminiscentia)? Is all sensation\ntouch (An omnis sensus sit tactus)? Are the planets habitable (An\nplanetae sint habitabiles)? Watts was obliged to answer no, yes, and\nno respectively, so that Gerard, speaking to the second question, was\nexpected to argue that all sensation was not touch. 1 No one would\nhave been surprised, however, when Gerard ostentatiously ignored\nthe stated question and announced his intention instead to 'touch'\nthe doctors, their wives, and the Oxford townsmen-not, however, the\ntownsmen's wives, who according to Gerard suffered from the disease\ncalled 'touch me not' .2 Gerard proceeded to insult various\nmembers of his audience in academic Latin for nearly an hour. According\nto him, the Vice-Chancellor John Fell shared one soul, one\nbed, and one wig with the Regius Professor of Divinity, Richard\nAllestree; Dr Smith of Christ Church invariably broke his oaths, except\nwhen he swore to beggars that he would not give them a penny; the\nMayor of Oxford, John Lambe, was a tailor (sartor) and a cuckold\nwho had delivered a simple-minded speech to the visiting Cosimo de\nMedici earlier that year; Dr John Lamphire, the Camden Professor\nof Ancient History, was a new Milo of Croton capable of carrying\nan ox, not on his shoulders, but in his belly. John Evelyn, who was\npresent in the audience, described the speech to his diary as 'a tedious,\nabusive, sarcastical rhapsodie', and claimed he had advised the\nauthorities that it ought to be 'suppress'd' .3 In fact, the authorities\nwent further, expelling Gerard within two weeks. The diarist Anthony\nWood noted with disgust that before Gerard departed, he 'went about\nto shew his speech', ensuring that many copies would survive in the\nnotebooks of Oxford students and fellows .", "isbn": "9780199243389", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "place_of_publication": "New York", "publication_date": "2001-03-08", "pages": "1-31" } ]