Reformation and Education: Confessional Dynamics and Intellectual Transformations

0557378 - FLÚ 2023 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Storchová, Lucie
Strategies for Adapting Knowledge: Melanchthon’s Natural Philosophy in the Czech Lands, 1540 to 1590.
Reformation and Education: Confessional Dynamics and Intellectual Transformations. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022 - (Burton, S.; Baines, M.), s. 177-207. ISBN 978-3-525-56055-6
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-02938S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : natural philosophy * Philipp Melanchthon * anatomy * astrology * comet * Wittenberg * Homer * Vergil * De anima * cultural exchange
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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The article deals with transformations of early modern knowledge during cultural exchanges. Using the example of scholars based at the Utraquist university in Prague from the 1550s onwards, it discusses how specific knowledge of the natural and social order that had been influenced by Philipp Melanchthonʼs natural philosophy (especially in the fields of anatomy and astrology) was adapted to new cultural environments in the Czech lands. The author shows that Prague university professors privileged some fields of natural philosophy while eschewing others and used various strategies to simplify knowledge. This simplification took place for pedagogical reasons and as part of their effort to fight civil disobedience through their vernacular works.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331433