Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician, rhetorician and pedagogical innovator across a variety of countries and intellectual disciplines, reappraising Ramus in the light of scholarly developments in the fifty years since the publication of Walter Ong's seminal work Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue. Chapters reflect the broad impact of Ramus and the Ramist 'method' of teaching across many subjects, including logic and rhetoric, pedagogy, mathematics, philosophy, and new scientific and taxonomic developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary fashion. Ramus' influence extended across many disciplines and this book skillfully weaves together studies in intellectual history, pedagogy, literature, philosophy and the history of science. It will prove a useful starting point for those interested in Ramus and his impact, as well as serving to redefine the field of Ramist studies for future scholars.
By:
Emma Annette Wilson
Edited by:
Steven J. Reid
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9781032924236
ISBN 10: 1032924233
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 1 Ramus and Ramism, PeterMack; Chapter 2 Andrew Melville and Scottish Ramism, Steven J.Reid; Chapter 3 Flat Dichotomists and Learned Men, SarahKnight; Chapter 4 Reading the ‘unseemly logomachy’, Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 5 Ramus, Printed Loci, and the Re-invention of Knowledge, RaphaelHallett; Chapter 6 The Secret of Success, AnitaTraninger; Chapter 7 Petrus Ramus and the Vernacular, KeesMeerhoff; Chapter 8 Ramus, Rheticus, and the Copernican Connection, DennisDanielson; Chapter 9 The Legacy of Petrus Ramus in U.S. Composition, RosaleenKeefe; Chapter 10 The Method of Exposition in Brynjolf Sveinsson’s ‘Commentary’ (1640) on the Dialecticae of Petrus Ramus, GunnarHardarson; Chapter 11 The Reception of Ramist Rhetoric in Hungary and Transylvania, GáborKecskeméti; Chapter 12 The Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia, HowardHotson;
Steven J. Reid is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and Emma Annette Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Reviews for Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World
'The rich variety of these studies and their superb use of contemporary scholarly methods bode well for ongoing interest in Ramus and the extraordinary attention to him in the early modern period.' Sixteenth Century Journal
