Storing, Archiving, Organizing

482 Pages·2016·7.3 MB·English

by  Anja-Silvia Goeing

Storing, Archiving, Organizing
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Storing, Archiving, Organizing
The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information
Management in Post-Reformation Zurich
By
Anja-Silvia Goeing
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Webpage Contents: Further Materials xi
List of Figures and Tables xii
Notes on the Transcription xiv
Introduction
1 The Development of Scholarly Practices within Institutions 3
2 Scholarship and Protestantism 10
3 Why Zurich as a Case Study 21
4 Sources and Methodological Considerations 24
5 Zurich and the Production and Transfer of Knowledge 30
Part 1
Swiss Town Politics, Education, and Administration in
the Sixteenth Century
6 Swiss Town Politics, Higher Education, and Notions of Administration,
Storage, and Order after the Reformation 35
7 Zurich Higher Education, 1555–1580 47
8 The Zurich Lectorium in the Secondary Literature 55
part 2
From Society to School: The Zurich School Regulations of 1559
9 The School Regulations: Grossmünster Stift and Town Council
Documents 69
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10 School Regulations as Scribal Publication 79
11 School Regulations: Aims in Education and Administration 89
12 School Statutes and Regulations in Zurich and in Europe 101
13 Borrowed Decora and Full-Fledged Systematic Structures 131
Part 3
Standards of School Administration: Keeping Minutes
1560–1580
14 The Use of Minutes in Zurich’s Institutions: School
Governance 137
15 The School Minutes: Educational and Administrative
Practices 147
16 Tabular Classification of the Zurich Lectorium,
1560–1580 156
17 The Practice of Regulations: Explicit References
to Rules 180
18 An Archive of Stable Practices 197
Part 4
Class Instruction: Lectures and the Use of Textbooks
19 Zurich’s Textbooks and Class Instruction: Introduction 203
20 Content and Significance of Teaching in the Zurich
Lectorium 212
21 Practices of Collecting and Organizing Knowledge 220
22 Class Instruction and Education: Gessner and Zurich 232
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Contents vii
Conclusion
23 The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information
Management in Post-Reformation Zurich and its European
Context 263
Appendices
Academic Directors, Teachers and Students at
the Lectorium
Appendix 1: List of Academic Directors at the Grossmünster Stift
Given in the Preface of the School Minutes 275
Appendix 2: Teachers Named in the School Minutes 280
Appendix 3: Auditors Named in the School Minutes 282
Documents Pertaining to the Grossmünster Stift’s School
Regulations
Appendix 4: The Grossmünster Stift Regulations of 1532
Regarding the Lectorium’s Lecturers and Its Variations from
1523 to 1540 287
Appendix 5: Transcription of the Regulations of 1559/1560 291
School Minutes (Acta Scholastica)
Appendix 6: School Minutes, Compiled by Johannes Wolf
(1560–1561) 313
Appendix 7: School Minutes, Compiled by Rudolf Gwalther
(1561–1562) 334
Appendix 8: School Minutes, Compiled by Ludwig Lavater
(1562–1563) 349
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A ppendix 9: School Minutes, Compiled by Wolfgang Haller
(1563–1564) 353
Appendix 10: School Minutes, Compiled by Josias Simmler
(1564–1566) 380
A ppendix 11: From the School Minutes (Acta Scholastica):
Organization of Administrative Penalties (1578) and Index (1580) by
Johann Jacob Friess  392
Textbooks
Appendix 12: Contents of Gessner, De Anima (1563) 405
Bibliography 407
Index 452
Acknowledgments
This book is partially my habilitation treatise and it is, as such, part of my
Habilitation at Philosophical Faculty of University of Zurich in 2012. I have re-
vised and augmented it for the English-speaking worlds of history of the book,
history of education, and history of scholarship in early modern times.
The process of finishing this book has involved discussions with a great
many people. Looking back, I am especially grateful to Jürgen Oelkers (Zurich),
Emidio Campi (Zurich), and Luise Schorn-Schütte (Frankfurt a. M.), who start-
ed me on the project of sifting through the extensively documented Schola
Tigurina in Zurich.
Manfred Jourdan (Hamburg) created an excellent atmosphere for on-going
research at the Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg where I had my first
experience with independent research. He generously helped me to arrange
my first archival stays in Zurich, which provided a foundation for the new proj-
ect. Two grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation—a project grant and
then a personal grant—eventually brought me to Zurich University, financed
my research, and allowed me to work very closely with Anthony Grafton of
Princeton University at Princeton and Zurich. The on-going cooperation has
shaped my approaches and, together with the conceptual and methodological
tools I received from the Institute of Swiss Reformation Studies at the Universi-
ty of Zurich, gave me the specific historical background I needed for my work.
Contact with the Reformation Institute and the Department of History at
Zurich University, a one-year visiting fellowship at Princeton University, and
many conferences, among them five workshops which I co-organized, deep-
ened my understanding of the Zwinglian and Bullingerian Reformation, Cal-
vinism in general, the history of universities, the history of the book, and the
history of science—all of which I rely on here. While completing a Master of
Studies at Oxford University, I had intense methodological discussions with
Laurence Brockliss, Jill Kraye, and Martin McLaughlin, and finally, during a
one-year visiting instructorship in history and history of science at California
Institute of Technology (made possible by Jed Buchwald, Mordechai Feingold,
and the Mellon Foundation), a one-year visiting fellowship in the department
of history at Harvard University (made possible by Ann Blair and the Mellon
Foundation), and a generous grant by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfen-
büttel, I was able to produce the first draft of this book. With it, I gained in
Summer 2012 the Habilitation at Philosophical Faculty of University of Zurich
and the Venia Legendi for the History of Early Modern Education. Visiting
positions at Caltech and Northumbria University allowed me to review and
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