Education and Learning in the Netherlands, 1400-1600: Essays in Honour of Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

This volume contains a series of articles - both reviews and case studies - dealing with a range of topics related to the history of education and learning in the Netherlands during a crucial period of transition. Schooling saw enormous progress, both in terms of numbers of people participating in it on various levels and of increasing diversity of institutions providing education. In the same period, learning and education penetrated deeply into society; they fulfilled a steadily growing number of functions, enhancing the competence of officials and contributing to the accumulation of intellectual and symbolic capital by both individuals and groups. A third major development was the change of discourse which was brought about by the advent of humanism in both Latin and vernacular culture. Contributors include: Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Sabrina Corbellini, Peter van Dael, Mario Damen, Karel Davids, Arjan van Dixhoorn, Hildo van Engen, Koen Goudriaan, Antheun Janse, Madelon van Luijk, Jaap van Moolenbroek, Bart Ramakers, Marijke Spies, Ad Tervoort, Ilja M. Veldman, Gerrit Verhoeven, and Samme Zijlstra†. Publications by H. de Ridder-Symoens : • Edited by C.M. Ridderikhoff. Édité avec la collaboration de H. de Ridder-Symoens , Premier Livre des Procurateurs, 1444-1546. Première partie. Texte des rapports des procurateurs , ISBN : 978 90 04 02561 5 (Out of print) • Edited by C.M. Ridderikhoff, H. de Ridder-Symoens et D. Illmer , Premier Livre des Procurateurs, 1444-1546. Seconde partie . Biographies des étudiants, 1: Introduction, sources et bibliographie, biographies, 1444-1515 , ISBN : 978 90 04 05728 9 (Out of print) • Edited by C.M. Ridderikhoff, H. de Ridder-Symoens et D. Illmer , Premier Livre des Procurateurs, 1444-1546. Seconde partie . Biographies des étudiants, 2: Biographies des étudiants, 1516-1546 , ISBN : 978 90 04 06251 1 (Out of print) • Edited by C.M. Ridderikhoff, H. de Ridder-Symoens et D. Illmer , Premier Livre des Procurateurs, 1444-1546. Seconde partie . Biographies des étudiants, 3: Tables, additions et corrections, illustrations , ISBN : 978 90 04 07152 0 (Out of print) Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 List of plates......Page 10 List of tables and graphs......Page 12 Contributors......Page 14 Introduction......Page 15 A Learned Acquaintance. Jan van Galecop (c.1375–1428) and the Modern Devotion......Page 27 The Education of the Noble Wassenaar Family......Page 47 Education or Connections? Learned Officials in the Council of Holland and Zeeland in the Fifteenth Century......Page 65 The City Magistracy in Leiden and Academic Legal Advice around the Middle of the Fifteenth Century......Page 83 Overqualified for Their Jobs? Rural Deans in the Diocese of Liège (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)......Page 101 Wessel Gansfort as a Teacher at the Cistercian Abbey of Aduard. The Dismissal of Caesarius of Heisterbach’s: Dialogus miraculorum......Page 127 “Pro inchoacione librarie.” A Close Look at Two Late-Medieval Schoolmasters and Their Books......Page 147 The Gouda Circle of Humanists......Page 169 Between Aea and Golgotha. The Education and Scholarship of Matthijs De Castelein (c.1485–1550)......Page 193 Writing Poetry as Intellectual Training. Chambers of Rhetoric and the Development of Vernacular Intellectual Life in the Low Countries between 1480 and 1600......Page 215 A Chaste Joseph for Schoolboys. On the Editions of Cornelius Crocus’ Sancta Comoedia Ioseph (1536–1548)......Page 237 The Bookkeeper’s Tale. Learning Merchant Skills in the Northern Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century......Page 249 A Sixteenth-Century Book Catalogue from Delft......Page 267 Two Illustrated Catechisms from Antwerp by Petrus Canisius......Page 291 Studying Abroad. The Student Years of Two Frisian Brothers at Cologne and Douai (1582–1593)......Page 311 The Portrayal of Student Life and Universities in the Early Modern Period......Page 329 Bibliography......Page 353 A......Page 377 C......Page 378 D......Page 379 G......Page 380 H......Page 381 J......Page 382 L......Page 383 N......Page 384 R......Page 385 T......Page 386 W......Page 387 Z......Page 388 Annotation This volume contains a series of articles - both reviews and case studies - dealing with a range of topics related to the history of education and learning in the Netherlands during a crucial period of transition. Schooling saw enormous progress, both in terms of numbers of people participating in it on various levels and of increasing diversity of institutions providing education. In the same period, learning and education penetrated deeply into society; they fulfilled a steadily growing number of functions, enhancing the competence of officials and contributing to the accumulation of intellectual and symbolic capital by both individuals and groups. A third major development was the change of discourse which was brought about by the advent of humanism in both Latin and vernacular culture