Howard Hotson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5369898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Hotson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hotson |
| SIGNATURE | HOTSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Reformation of Common Learning
Howard Hotson’s previous contribution to this series, Commonplace Learning , explored how a fragmented political and confessional landscape turned the northwestern corner of the Holy Roman Empire into the pedagogical laboratory of post-Reformation Protestant Europe. This sequel traces the further evolution of that tradition after that region’s leading educational institutions were destroyed by the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) and their students a…
Reformation of Common Learning
Emendation
After Alsted and Bisterfeld fled Herborn for Transylvania in 1629, their work on perfecting the Encyclopaedia published in Herborn the following year continued uninterrupted for a quarter century. Alsted overhauled his topical encyclopaedia in a manuscript which was returned to Herborn in 1648 and destined for printing around 1650 but which has subsequently disappeared. He devoted additional work to recasting the post-Ramist Encyclopaedia in quas…
Reconfiguration
Alsted and Bisterfeld, Hartlib and Comenius, Welsch and Leibniz all proposed to emend the Encyclopaedia of 1630, and all failed. Contemplating the failure of these attempts opens up the broadest vista attained by this study. The idea of an ‘ enkyklios paideia ’, a cycle or circle of instruction or education, is an ancient one which gradually took literary shape during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Three successive generations of reform—led by …
Leibniz’s Network
Leibniz’s network is a major subject of study in its own right, exemplifying the centrality of the ‘republic of letters’ to the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Yet the primary reason for discussing it here is that understanding Leibniz’s network is also indispensable for understanding his thought. Leibniz’s thought is not a fixed product, immortalized in a small number of polished publications. Its content and expression evolved cons…
Highways of light to the invisible college
In the summer of 1644, a physician and former imperial official by the name of Cyprian Kinner moved to Elbing (Elbląg) to collaborate with the leading pedagogical theorist of his day, Jan Amos Come
T he I nternational S ociety for I ntellectual H istory
Scientiae et artes
Journal Article Scientiae et artes: Die Vermittlung alten und neuen Wissens in Literatur, Kunst und Musik Get access Scientiae et artes: Die Vermittlung alten und neuen Wissens in Literatur, Kunst und Musik, ed. Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004; 2 vols., pp. 1136. Eur 159). Howard Hotson Howard Hotson St Anne's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historic…
Commonplace Learning
Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. While its origins in France, its impact in colonial America, and its influence in England, Scotland, and Ireland have been studied in detail, its uniquely warm reception in central Europe – where the great majority of posthumous reprintings of Ramus’s work appeared – has never been synoptically studied. This book, the firs…
Commonplace Learning
FIRST-GENERATION RAMISM 1. INTRODUCTION: THE EARLIEST GERMAN RAMISM i. Ramism in Germany: a neglected tradition ii. Ramism and Calvinism: an overworked explanation iii. The spread of Ramism in north-western Germany: a fresh start 2. FOUNDATIONS: RAMISM IN GERMAN CONTEXT, 1543-1600 i. The rudiments of Ramism ii. Ramism and humanism, c.1580-1600 iii. Ramism in Hanseatic cities and imperial counties SECOND-GENERATION SEMI-RAMISM 3. INSTITUTIONALISAT…
Beyond Calvin
A book very much like this one has been badly needed for many years. In providing it, Graeme Murdock has helped consolidate and advance a reconfiguration of this field in several important respects. The first, boldly announced in his title, is to displace Jean Calvin from his axiomatic place as the centre of what used unapologetically to be called ‘international Calvinism’, in favour of a broader conception of ‘Europe's Reformed Churches’ of whic…
Peiresc's Europe
1University of Aberdeen Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century Peter N. Miller New Haven/London Yale U.P. 2000 xvi + 234 £ 30
Occult Sympathies
In the years following the publication of the Systema physicae harmonicae, the Peripatetic and biblical components of Johann Heinrich Alsted's proposed synthesis were developed in his philosophical and biblical encyclopedias. Alsted wrote a letter on March 21, 1618, which was published fourteen years later in Hamburg by Joachim Morsius. It is addressed to a student, Josua von der Tann, on the eve of his departure from Herborn, counselling him on …
Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588–1638
Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the works of Giordano Bruno. From the mainstream Reformed tradition, Alsted and his circle inherited the zeal for further reformation of churc…
Paradise Postponed
Irenicism and Dogmatics in the Confessional Age
The ecclesiastical history of early seventeenth-century Protestant Germany presents a generally gloomy picture. Lutherans and Calvinists, locked in increasingly uncompromising fratricidal controversy, divide the heartland of the Reformation against itself, thereby unwittingly preparing for the Habsburg reconquest of subsequent decades. In the light of this ensuing disaster, the heroes of the era are naturally identified as those few figures who a…
Irenicism and Dogmatics in the Confessional Age
The ecclesiastical history of early seventeenth-century Protestant Germany presents a generally gloomy picture. Lutherans and Calvinists, locked in increasingly uncompromising fratricidal controversy, divide the heartland of the Reformation against itself, thereby unwittingly preparing for the Habsburg reconquest of subsequent decades. In the light of this ensuing disaster, the heroes of the era are naturally identified as those few figures who a…
Irenicism and Dogmatics in the Confessional Age
The ecclesiastical history of early seventeenth-century Protestant Germany presents a generally gloomy picture. Lutherans and Calvinists, locked in increasingly uncompromising fratricidal controversy, divide the heartland of the Reformation against itself, thereby unwittingly preparing for the Habsburg reconquest of subsequent decades. In the light of this ensuing disaster, the heroes of the era are naturally identified as those few figures who a…
Occult Sympathies
In the years following the publication of the Systema physicae harmonicae, the Peripatetic and biblical components of Johann Heinrich Alsted's proposed synthesis were developed in his philosophical and biblical encyclopedias. Alsted wrote a letter on March 21, 1618, which was published fourteen years later in Hamburg by Joachim Morsius. It is addressed to a student, Josua von der Tann, on the eve of his departure from Herborn, counselling him on …
Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588–1638
Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the works of Giordano Bruno. From the mainstream Reformed tradition, Alsted and his circle inherited the zeal for further reformation of churc…
Paradise Postponed
Peiresc's Europe
1University of Aberdeen Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century Peter N. Miller New Haven/London Yale U.P. 2000 xvi + 234 £ 30
Commonplace Learning
Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. While its origins in France, its impact in colonial America, and its influence in England, Scotland, and Ireland have been studied in detail, its uniquely warm reception in central Europe – where the great majority of posthumous reprintings of Ramus’s work appeared – has never been synoptically studied. This book, the firs…
Commonplace Learning
FIRST-GENERATION RAMISM 1. INTRODUCTION: THE EARLIEST GERMAN RAMISM i. Ramism in Germany: a neglected tradition ii. Ramism and Calvinism: an overworked explanation iii. The spread of Ramism in north-western Germany: a fresh start 2. FOUNDATIONS: RAMISM IN GERMAN CONTEXT, 1543-1600 i. The rudiments of Ramism ii. Ramism and humanism, c.1580-1600 iii. Ramism in Hanseatic cities and imperial counties SECOND-GENERATION SEMI-RAMISM 3. INSTITUTIONALISAT…
Beyond Calvin
A book very much like this one has been badly needed for many years. In providing it, Graeme Murdock has helped consolidate and advance a reconfiguration of this field in several important respects. The first, boldly announced in his title, is to displace Jean Calvin from his axiomatic place as the centre of what used unapologetically to be called ‘international Calvinism’, in favour of a broader conception of ‘Europe's Reformed Churches’ of whic…
Scientiae et artes
Journal Article Scientiae et artes: Die Vermittlung alten und neuen Wissens in Literatur, Kunst und Musik Get access Scientiae et artes: Die Vermittlung alten und neuen Wissens in Literatur, Kunst und Musik, ed. Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004; 2 vols., pp. 1136. Eur 159). Howard Hotson Howard Hotson St Anne's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historic…
T he I nternational S ociety for I ntellectual H istory
Highways of light to the invisible college
In the summer of 1644, a physician and former imperial official by the name of Cyprian Kinner moved to Elbing (Elbląg) to collaborate with the leading pedagogical theorist of his day, Jan Amos Come
Leibniz’s Network
Leibniz’s network is a major subject of study in its own right, exemplifying the centrality of the ‘republic of letters’ to the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Yet the primary reason for discussing it here is that understanding Leibniz’s network is also indispensable for understanding his thought. Leibniz’s thought is not a fixed product, immortalized in a small number of polished publications. Its content and expression evolved cons…
The Reformation of Common Learning
Howard Hotson’s previous contribution to this series, Commonplace Learning , explored how a fragmented political and confessional landscape turned the northwestern corner of the Holy Roman Empire into the pedagogical laboratory of post-Reformation Protestant Europe. This sequel traces the further evolution of that tradition after that region’s leading educational institutions were destroyed by the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) and their students a…
Reformation of Common Learning
Emendation
After Alsted and Bisterfeld fled Herborn for Transylvania in 1629, their work on perfecting the Encyclopaedia published in Herborn the following year continued uninterrupted for a quarter century. Alsted overhauled his topical encyclopaedia in a manuscript which was returned to Herborn in 1648 and destined for printing around 1650 but which has subsequently disappeared. He devoted additional work to recasting the post-Ramist Encyclopaedia in quas…
Reconfiguration
Alsted and Bisterfeld, Hartlib and Comenius, Welsch and Leibniz all proposed to emend the Encyclopaedia of 1630, and all failed. Contemplating the failure of these attempts opens up the broadest vista attained by this study. The idea of an ‘ enkyklios paideia ’, a cycle or circle of instruction or education, is an ancient one which gradually took literary shape during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Three successive generations of reform—led by …
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