Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Wurzburg, 1576-1634

by Richard Kirwan

Positioned within an emerging field of research on university representation, the study aims to fill a significant gap in a historiography which lacks an in-depth and systematic analysis of the image-fashioning process and its development at new universities in the early modern period. This study investigates the fashioning of public image in the formative years of new "territorial" universities, concentrating on the examples of Helmstedt and Wurzburg...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447060670
• ISBN13: 9783447060677
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 364 Pages