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The Italian University in the Renaissance
No full textThis volume investigates the status of universities in early modern Europe, with particular reference to Italian universities and their international relations. The themes explored in the first part of the work are the definition of the nature and status of the early modern university; its interaction with the hosting community and its collocation in its historical and social context; its role in international politics; the status of the institution and its bearing on the circulation of ideas and books. In particular, Anglo-Italian relations are highlighted, and the traditional connection between the Italian university and humanism is usefully challenged. While some of the contributions deal with more general issues that involved universities and their socio-cultural context (Denley, Davies, Rundle), in other instances the analysis of a case study (Giglioni) helps to highlight the statutes and rituals of Italian universities and their role in contemporary politics, offering useful explorations of the less investigated side of Italian universities.
In the second part of the volume, the Padua studium becomes the centre of interest, and its unique status is usefully contrasted with contemporary models, particularly as the relation between Padua and the British cultural world is emphasized. To all intents and purposes Padua was a universitas scholarium, a legal corporation of scholars with its own statutes, which for a long time enjoyed a degree of autonomy even in complex and mutable circumstances; it traditionally welcomed foreign students, and the various nations were self-governing bodies with an independent status and representatives in the university’s executive council. Its unusual nature, and the contrast it made with other (Italian) universities, becomes the theme here, and the exploration of politically charged episodes of the history of Padua (Piovan, Martellozzo) offers the opportunity of comparing analogous practices in different universities, as well as the often overlooked non-educational side of the life of these institutions. It also throw a useful light on the entering of British intellectuals in the European arena, and on the ideological and political consequence this had. In the concluding essay (Woolfson), the various strands of the volume find their cohesion; as one of the poles of attraction for English scholars travelling south, Padua also becomes a model of cultural and political relations in the shaping of the modern world
Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings online (POxBo)
No full textThis is Phase II of the Lost Manuscripts project. It provides for the first term an online version of Neil Ker's classic Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1954), complete with the addenda and corrigenda provided by both the reprint (2004, edited by Scott Mandelbrote and David Rundle) and David Pearson's Oxford Bookbinding (2000). The advantage of this format is that it is highly searchable. Over time, it will also be supplemented by extra material and with new descriptions (including images) to make Lost Manuscripts the essential resource for manuscript fragments in the British Isles
Introduction
No full textThis volume investigates the status of universities in early modern Europe, with particular reference to Italian universities and their international relations. The themes explored in the first part of the work are the definition of the nature and status of the early modern university; its interaction with the hosting community and its collocation in its historical and social context; its role in international politics; the status of the institution and its bearing on the circulation of ideas and books. In particular, Anglo-Italian relations are highlighted, and the traditional connection between the Italian university and humanism is usefully challenged. While some of the contributions deal with more general issues that involved universities and their socio-cultural context (Denley, Davies, Rundle), in other instances the analysis of a case study (Giglioni) helps to highlight the statutes and rituals of Italian universities and their role in contemporary politics, offering useful explorations of the less investigated side of Italian universities.
In the second part of the volume, the Padua studium becomes the centre of interest, and its unique status is usefully contrasted with contemporary models, particularly as the relation between Padua and the British cultural world is emphasized. To all intents and purposes Padua was a universitas scholarium, a legal corporation of scholars with its own statutes, which for a long time enjoyed a degree of autonomy even in complex and mutable circumstances; it traditionally welcomed foreign students, and the various nations were self-governing bodies with an independent status and representatives in the university’s executive council. Its unusual nature, and the contrast it made with other (Italian) universities, becomes the theme here, and the exploration of politically charged episodes of the history of Padua (Piovan, Martellozzo) offers the opportunity of comparing analogous practices in different universities, as well as the often overlooked non-educational side of the life of these institutions. It also throw a useful light on the entering of British intellectuals in the European arena, and on the ideological and political consequence this had. In the concluding essay (Woolfson), the various strands of the volume find their cohesion; as one of the poles of attraction for English scholars travelling south, Padua also becomes a model of cultural and political relations in the shaping of the modern world
Pour un humanisme « europolite » (autour de The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain)
No full textDavid Rundle is the author of a monograph on the role of an international group of scribes and of English elites in the success achieved by humanist script during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In this, he challenges the conventional assumptions of a history of humanism which sees it as spreading from an Italian centre to further-flung peripheries. He focuses instead on the importance of cosmopolitan collaboration and on the migratory habits of the elites who nurtured humanism. In this interview, he discusses the principles and the methods of his research, clarifying some of the concepts and elaborating on the potential significance of its conclusions to other areas of enquiry
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain: The English Quattrocento
No full textWhat has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of the script and of the book more generally - to demonstrate a tradition of engagement from the 1430s into the early sixteenth century. Introducing a cast-list of scribes and collectors who are not only English and Italian but also Scottish, Dutch and German, this study sheds light on the cosmopolitanism central to the success of the humanist agenda. Questioning accepted narratives of the slow spread of the Renaissance from Italy to other parts of Europe, Rundle suggests new possibilities for the fields of manuscript studies and the study of Renaissance humanism
The subtitle project: A vocational education initiative
No full textThis article discusses the pedagogical relevance of a research project into professional subtitling practices in Italy which is coordinated by the author at the University of Bologna. The key feature of this initiative relates to its collaborative dynamics: research is carried out by students writing their final dissertations, working together as a team and pooling their resources and findings. The author contends that taking part in this collective enquiry-based experience is as important for the students as the actual results of their investigation and discusses in detail the pedagogical benefits of this approach. The article begins by describing the inception stages of the project, conceived as an attempt to capitalize on the traditionally high weighting of the final dissertation within Italian degree programmes - and hence on the important amount of effort that students are likely to put into it. After describing the pedagogical and research tools used in the project, the paper goes on to present the results achieved in the first 2-3 years of the project's life; illustrate how the students' work has influenced the author's teaching practices as a subtitler trainer; and evaluate the implications of this experience for translator training in general. © St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester
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