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Author Davies, Jonathan, 1966-

Title Culture and power : Tuscany and its universities 1537-1609 / by Jonathan Davies
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations
Series Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 0926-6070 ; v. 34
Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; v. 34.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Terminology -- Introduction -- Part One -- Context -- Chapter One Building the Grand Duchy -- Chapter Two Cultural Politics in Early Modern Tuscany -- Part Two -- Structures -- Chapter Three The Structures of Academic Power -- Chapter Four Tensions Within the Structures of Academic Power -- Part Three -- Order and Disorder -- Chapter Five Rituals -- Chapter Six Violence and Disorder -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Deputati di Bal236;a sopra lo Studio di Siena, 15578211;1609 -- Appendix II: Indices of the Known Members of the Pisan Colleges of Doctors, 15438211;1609 -- Appendix III: Indices of the Known Members of the Sienese Colleges of Doctors, 15578211;1579 -- Appendix IV: The Finances of the Studio pisano, the Studio fiorentino13;, and the Accademia fiorentina -- Appendix V: Payments to Professors at the Studio pisano, the Studio fiorentino13;, and the Accademia fiorentina -- Appendix VI: Payments to Professors at the Studio senese, 15578211;1589 -- Bibliography -- Index -- FIGURES -- Fig. 1. Numbers of Chairs at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 15438211;1608 -- Fig. 2. Teaching Budgets at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 15438211;1608 -- Fig. 3. Salaries at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 15438211;1608
Summary Challenging absolutist interpretations, this title presents a study that uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to reveal the contradictions and the tensions as well as the innovations and the traditions which characterised the grand duchy of Tuscany and its cultural politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index
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Subject Universities and colleges -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History
Universities and colleges -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Tuscany
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Universities and colleges
Universities and colleges -- Social aspects
Italy -- Tuscany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008052016
ISBN 9789047426028
9047426029
128260175X
9781282601758