Vices of the Learned : Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices /

Vices of the Learned : Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices /

Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoram...

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Other Authors: Hagen, Sjang ten (Editor), Paul, Herman (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 362.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Contemporary History.
Early Modern History.
History.
Intellectual History.
Modern History.

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Euthalian Tradition and Its Features
  • 2 Additional Items Not Catalogued
  • 3 The Corpus
  • 4 Using the Catalogue
  • 5 Using the Feature Inventory
  • 6 The Euthalian Tradition and Catenae: A Test Case
  • Catalogue
  • A Substantial Witnesses (22)
  • B Intermediate Witnesses (245)
  • C Chapter Lists and/or Hypotheses Only (264)
  • D In-Text Annotations Only (19)
  • E Miscellaneous Witnesses (40)
  • F Fragmentary Witnesses (37)
  • G Manuscripts with No Euthalian Material (162)
  • H Manuscripts Not Marked in the Catalogue (106)
  • Features Inventory
  • Catena Cross-Reference List
  • Bibliography
  • Gregory-Aland and Ditykon Number Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices
  • Herman Paul
  • Part 1 Vice Terms
  • 2 Tracing the Development of curiositas in Early Condemnations of the University
  • From Academics' Useless Curiosity to Education for Productive Action
  • Richard Newhauser
  • 3 Notes towards a History of "Prejudice," Early to Late Modern
  • Sorana Corneanu
  • 4 Dogmatism: the Persistence of an Umbrella Term
  • Alexander Stoeger
  • 5 Scholasticism as a Scholarly Vice Term: from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
  • Sjang ten Hagen
  • Part 2 Figurations of Vice
  • 6 The Persistence of the Pedant
  • Arnoud Visser
  • 7 The Many Lives of the Charlatan: on the Persistence of an Embodiment of Scholarly Vices
  • Marian Füssel
  • 8 From the Novum Organum to the Forensic Crime Lab: the Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon's Idols of the Mind
  • Edurne De Wilde
  • 9 The Mammon Metaphor in American Science: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1890-2010
  • Pieter Huistra and Herman Paul
  • Part 3 Media of Circulation
  • 10 Medical Vices and Proverbial Expressions in Eighteenth-Century Medical Dissertations on Moderation, Patience, and Trust
  • Sari Kivistö
  • 11 Mocking Medieval Minds: How Modern Histories of Science Transmitted Scholarly Vices
  • Sjang ten Hagen
  • 12 Student Advice Literature and the Vice of Uninformed Studying: from Hodegetik to Study Vlogs
  • Anne Por
  • 13 Conclusion: How and Why Scholarly Vices Persisted over Time
  • Sjang ten Hagen and Herman Paul
  • Index.