Church and State Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State Government
Publication information:
Goeing, Anja-Silvia. “Church and State Sixteenth Century Higher Education in Zurich and Its Ties to the City-State Government”. In Early Modern Universities Networks of Higher Learning, Ed. By. Anja-Silvia Goeing, Glyn Parry, Mordechai Feingold. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 31, 63-82. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Abstract
In the early modern period, the aim of institutions of higher learning to inte-grate into a larger whole, such as the state, a church, or the international intel-lectual world, was an important condition for the development of knowledge and intellectual behavior in Europe.The focus of this study is Zurich, a politically separate part of the Holy Ro-man Empire in the tradition of the free imperial cities with a strong bourgeoi-sie, which was at the same time a full member of the Old Swiss Confedera-tion. Both political connections impacted the direction and development of cultural exchange in Zurich.