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AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 60 No 1 (2020), 209–217
The Literary Production of Philosophy Professors 16th- and 17th-Century Central Europe: A Brief Overview
Joseph S. Freedman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23365730.2020.27
published online: 08. 03. 2021
abstract
The submitted study deals with various types of works written by 16th- and 17th-century Central European philosophy professors. Their intensive production is examined with the use of the following nine categories: 1. lectures, 2. disputations, 3. academic exercises, 4. polemical writings, 5. translations, 6. editions of ancient and post-ancient writings, 7. monographs, including commentaries, 8. auxiliary writings, and 9. other kinds of writings. These categories form the basis of further content analysis.
keywords: academic exercises; axioms; commonplaces; commentaries; disputations; editions; encyclopedias; lectures; lexicons; pedagogy; textbooks; translations
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