RT Article
T1 Inside Jesuit Classrooms: Students’ Notebooks from the Austrian Province of the Late Sixteenth Century
JF Journal of Jesuit studies
VO 11
IS 2
SP 269
OP 299
A1 Förköli, Gábor
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1886969787
AB In the sphere of education, early modern Jesuit documents prescribed a large variety of didactical methods. As a result, Jesuit education was perceived as facilitating a dialogue between traditional Scholasticism and humanism or scientific progress. However, complaints from the first half-century of the order indicate that Jesuit schools fell short in terms of their compliance with prescriptive regulations. Indeed, non-Jesuit scholars often considered the order to be conservative traducers of Renaissance scholarship. To assess these contradictory evaluations, this article proposes to scrutinize manuscripts produced by students during their philosophical studies at the colleges of Vienna, Olomouc, and Graz, falling within the timeframe of c. 1580–90. Here, I look to argue that, even before the universal presence of comprehensive Jesuit textbooks, the teaching of philosophy was not only surprisingly unified within the province but new scientific and scholarly developments, including the Gregorian Reform and the debates around Copernican views, were also presented in the Jesuit classroom.
K1 note-taking
K1 Astronomy
K1 Dialectic
K1 Logic
K1 curriculum of philosophy
K1 Jesuits
DO 10.1163/22141332-11020005