CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Capros, Iulia |
|---|---|
| Title | Students from Kosice at Foreign Universities Before and During the Reformation Period in the Town |
| Summary | This dissertation provides a quantitative and descriptive analysis of the students from Košice, a town in present day Eastern Slovakia, formerly in the Northern part of the Hungarian Kingdom, who attended universities from the end of the fourteenth until the sixth decade of the seventeenth century. The introductory part of this work establishes the importance of research on students from Košice during the selected period, presents a number of questions to be answered in the main body of the work, analyzes the relevant scholarship and the primary sources used and discusses the methodology applied together with a number of limitations considered in the process of this research. The main body begins by setting the local context: presenting political, economic, and religious aspects of the development of the town of Košice during the period of research. The next chapter of the dissertation maps out the academic peregrination of the students from Košice throughout the entire research period and analyzes the main factors that influenced the numerical evolvement and the institutional choices at different stages. At the same time, a short description of each of the universities attended by Košice students, together with an analysis of the matriculation numbers and their fluctuation is provided. Traditional aspects considered in scholarship dedicated to academic peregrination such as field of study, length of study, graduation, social status, travel in groups and inter-university mobility are presented and commented upon when available data permits. The fourth chapter of the dissertation focuses on the attitude of the town towards university education and the manner in which the urban administration and other local institutions were involved in the educational careers of its citizens. The main emphasis is set upon the financial assistance from the town council and the conditions within which it occurred. The last chapter of the dissertation addresses the postgraduate careers of the former students and attempts to assess the impact that university studies had upon individuals and the town or region as a whole. The research is based upon a prosopographical catalogue which comprises all students from Košice who went abroad to study at universities until the year 1660, identified in the available sources. This catalogue includes academic information about each of the students supplied with further data about his family background, social status, postgraduate career, etc. depending on the information that could be gathered. Whenever possible, some indication is given on the contribution, if any, to the cultural development of the town and the region. |
| Supervisor | Szende, Katalin |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/mphcai01.pdf |
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