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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. INSTITUTIONALISATION: SEMI-RAMISM IN REFORMED ACADEMIES, 1580-1600 i. Adaptation: the advent of Philippo-Ramism ii. Confessionalisation: Ramism and Calvinism revisited iii. Expansion: Ramism and the encyclopaedia 4. ADAPTATION: POST-RAMIST METHODS IN REFORMED UNIVERSITIES, 1590-1613 i. Beyond Philippo-Ramism: Casmann, Timpler, Keckermann, and Alsted ii. 'Methodical Peripateticism': Heidelberg and Keckermann's systema, 1590-1601 iii. Precursor to the Encyclopaedia: Danzig and Keckermann's Systema systematum, 1602-13 THIRD-GENERATION POST-RAMIST ECLECTICISM 5. COMPILATION: ALSTED'S CURSUS PHILOSOPHICI ENCYCLOPAEDIA, 1609-20 i. Form: the Encyclopaedia as systema systematum ii. Composition: the Encyclopaedia as bibliotheca universalis locorum communium iii. Matter: the Encyclopaedia as bibliotheca philosophica 6. CULMINATION: ALSTED'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA SEPTEM TOMIS DISTINCTA, 1620-30 i. Synthesis: the Encyclopaedia as systema harmonicum ii. Expansion: from Cursus philosophici encyclopaedia (1620) to Encyclopedia omnium disciplinarum (1630) iii. Dissolution: the Encyclopaedia as Farragines disciplinarum 7. INTERIM CONCLUSIONS i. Destruction and further ramification, 1622-70 ii. The common principles: means and ends of the German post-Ramist tradition SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Eclecticism · Encyclopedia · German · Theology · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · German Philosophy · Influence · modern · Modern Philosophy · petrus Ramus (1515-1572) · Renaissance · Renaissance Philosophy