Humanists and scholastics in early sixteenth-century Paris : new sources from the Faculty of Theology
Lundberg, Christa LU
(2024)
In Intellectual History Review
34(2).
p.299-315
- Abstract
Historians often compare the relationship between humanists and scholastics in the early sixteenth century to a battle. In such accounts, the Parisian Faculty of Theology plays the role of a major combatant keeping humanists away from religious studies. This article paints a different and more harmonious picture of humanists and scholastics in the decade before the Reformation. It draws on hitherto little explored evidence from manuscripts authored by official orators at the University of Paris: their speeches to graduating students at the Faculty of Theology in 1510 and 1512. It will be argued that the speakers celebrated both humanist and scholastic competences and the speeches themselves demonstrate that eloquence had a role to play... (More)
Historians often compare the relationship between humanists and scholastics in the early sixteenth century to a battle. In such accounts, the Parisian Faculty of Theology plays the role of a major combatant keeping humanists away from religious studies. This article paints a different and more harmonious picture of humanists and scholastics in the decade before the Reformation. It draws on hitherto little explored evidence from manuscripts authored by official orators at the University of Paris: their speeches to graduating students at the Faculty of Theology in 1510 and 1512. It will be argued that the speakers celebrated both humanist and scholastic competences and the speeches themselves demonstrate that eloquence had a role to play within the institution. In this way, the article adds nuance to our understanding of how the Faculty of Theology viewed humanists and introduces important new sources to the history of universities.
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- Lundberg, Christa
LU
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- academic oratory, Faculty of Theology, Humanism, University of Paris
- in
- Intellectual History Review
- volume
- 34
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:85144521506
- ISSN
- 1749-6977
- DOI
- 10.1080/17496977.2022.2152996
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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