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The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England During the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries

Name: The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England During the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries
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Contributors:

Salvatore Cipriano

Publisher:

Boydell Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Education

Book Subcategory:

Europe, Modern, History

Book Topic:

Great Britain, 17th Century

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Release Date:

12/17/24

ISBN 13:

9781783277865

Weight:

1.38 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inches

Pages:

320

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Highlights the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment

Universities in the early modern period were powerful institutions in the formation of societies, utilised as both tools to legitimise and perpetuate the power of states and archetypes upon which to model an idealised society that might maintain social order. In an era of upheaval and civil war, rival authorities clashed in the universities, where the conflicts and complexities of early modern state formation were regularly laid bare.

The encroachment of the Stuart monarchy beyond England into Scottish and Irish academe stimulated broader resistance from Scottish and Irish authorities, while prompting the founding of institutions of higher learning among expatriate communities beyond the British Isles, especially in New England. In these spaces, universities were viewed as institutional bulwarks against external intrusions that promoted localised, competing visions of the godly church and state amid the conflicts and complexities of early modern state formation.

This book provides new insight into the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment and corrects outmoded notions about the universities' purported insularity and intellectual poverty. Rather, the image that emerges of these universities is one of genuine academies of strategic importance, employed to serve the agendas of ruling powers in Scotland, Ireland, and New England. Trinity College, Dublin, Harvard College, and the Scottish universities existed on the frontiers of a deteriorating composite monarchy with a centralizing impulse, becoming battle grounds of the mid-seventeenth-century's intellectual, political, and religious conflicts.

SALVATORE CIPRIANO is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education, Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Fordham University.

The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England During the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries

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