A Global Earth in the Classroom: New Voices in the History of Early Modern Education (History of Early Modern Educational Thought, 5)

This book explores the diverse educational practices at the turn of the late medieval and early modern ages in various spheres of social, cultural, and political life with a global perspective that spans from America to Asia and old Europe. Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Notes on Contributors 8 Introduction: Educational Worlds in the First Globalization 10 Bibliography 17 Chapter 1 Credit and Courtesy: Educating the Merchant in Renaissance Milan 19 1 Basic and Specific Training 22 2 Cultural Education: Ethics and Aesthetics 26 3 Core Skills: Interpersonal and Political Skills 31 4 Conclusion: Civis and Mercator, Creditum and Curialitas between City Microcosm and Global Macrocosm 34 Bibliography 36 Chapter 2 Under the Musical Law: Teaching Music to Rule the Earth in Europe, xv–xvi Century 39 1 The Teaching of Music and the Place of Music in the Scholarship 41 2 Educating the Teacher: Cantores and Their Training in the Maîtrise 42 3 Higher Education: Music in University 44 4 The Court as a Musical Center 46 5 The Musical Law 47 6 Music as a Rhetoric Exercise 49 7 Conclusion 51 Bibliography 52 Chapter 3 Jesuit Education in Colonial Brazil, 1549–1759: An Overview 56 1 Preliminary Observations 57 2 Beginnings: Pedagogia Brasílica, Improvisation, Experiments, and Disputes 62 3 “For Mission Purposes”: Rationale for Jesuit Colleges in Colonial Brazil 68 4 The Consolidation of Jesuit Education in Colonial Brazil 73 5 Final Remarks 82 Bibliography 83 Chapter 4 “For These Parts of Infidels Great Learning Is Not Needed”: Jesuit Education and Pedagogical Responsibilities in the Early Modern Indian Subcontinent 88 1 Introduction: a General Jesuit View of Education 88 2 Language as Starting Point 90 3 Education in the Estado da India 92 4 Language Learning and Use 102 5 Educational Responsibilities 106 6 Race and Native Clergy 110 Bibliography 115 Chapter 5 Apology of Human Geography in Daniello Bartoli’s Work 119 1 Introduction 119 2 A Moral Reading of World Geography 121 3 A Geography of Humanity and Its History 128 4 Bartoli’s Geography in Historical Perspective 134 Bibliography 138 Chapter 6 From ‘La Sfera’ to the Atlas: Transformations in the Early Modern Geography Textbooks, 1400–1800 140 1 At the Origins of Geography Textbooks: ‘La Sfera’ Manuals in Humanist Italy 144 2 On the Edge of Epistemology: Geography Textbooks between Religion and Pedagogical Needs 149 3 The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the Modern Atlas 155 4 Notes on the Evolution of Geographic and Ethnographic Concepts 158 5 Conclusion 162 Ancient Bibliography 164 Index 168 This volume offers a scholarly examination of educational history, highlighting the pivotal role of educational practices from the late medieval era to the early modern period. It provides a dynamic forum for emerging academics in the field, revealing fresh, multifaceted perspectives on the educational methods of this era. The work illuminates the sophisticated educational systems that shaped Renaissance Milan's merchants and the education of cantors in royal courts and cathedrals. Spanning from Brazil to India, it traces the extensive reach of Jesuit influence and reveals how their teachings fostered an early consciousness of a globally interconnected world in European education. Contributors include Bradley Blankemeyer, Laura Madella, Jessica Ottelli, Federico Piseri, David Salomoni, and Carolina Vaz de Carvalho.