This is an account of the intellectual and social history of this key institution, its host city, its staff and its students. It deals with the struggle between the town, which sought to push the academy towards a broader approach to education, including law and medicine, and the Reformed Church, which wanted the academy to become a seminary for Protestant clergy, Isolated from the European mainstream the academy developed new scholars, and new and influential scholarship. The author has traced the origins, studies and future careers of many students and teachers, linked these individual histories to the great movements of history during the period and combined all the work into an account of the central institution of Reformed Europe.
- ISBN10 1859281664
- ISBN13 9781859281666
- Publish Date 11 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Scolar Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English