1st Edition
Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts Ramism in Britain and the Wider World
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician, rhetorician and pedagogical innovator across a variety of countries and intellectual disciplines, reappraising Ramus in the light of scholarly developments in the fifty years since the publication of... Read more
Introduction, Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 1 Ramus and Ramism, PeterMack; Chapter 2 Andrew Melville and Scottish Ramism, Steven J.Reid; Chapter 3 Flat Dichotomists and Learned Men, SarahKnight; Chapter 4 Reading the ‘unseemly logomachy’, Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 5 Ramus, Printed Loci, and the Re-invention of Knowledge, RaphaelHallett; Chapter 6 The Secret of Success, AnitaTraninger; Chapter 7 Petrus Ramus and the Vernacular, KeesMeerhoff; Chapter 8 Ramus, Rheticus, and the Copernican Connection, DennisDanielson; Chapter 9 The Legacy of Petrus Ramus in U.S. Composition, RosaleenKeefe; Chapter 10 The Method of Exposition in Brynjolf Sveinsson’s ‘Commentary’ (1640) on the Dialecticae of Petrus Ramus, GunnarHardarson; Chapter 11 The Reception of Ramist Rhetoric in Hungary and Transylvania, GáborKecskeméti; Chapter 12 The Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia, HowardHotson;
Biography
Steven J. Reid is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and Emma Annette Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
'The rich variety of these studies and their superb use of contemporary scholarly methods bode well for ongoing interest in Ramus and the extraordinary attention to him in the early modern period.' Sixteenth Century Journal
