CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Swierad-Redwood, Katarzyna |
|---|---|
| Title | Pedagogy of the Confessed: International Christian Humanism from the Sixteenth Century Classroom to the Seventeenth Century Pulpit |
| Summary | This thesis examines the extent to which humanist educators succeeded in equipping their students with classical rhetorical style, moral and ethical values, as well as a social network, in spite of the confessionally divided nature of late-Renaissance Poland and England. Humanist education, like any education system, was designed to serve its society. It was simultaneously a product of shifting attitudes following the reemergence of classical texts, and a tool with which countries supported religious reform, violence, and nation-building. In this thesis, I argue that humanism was both a unifying educational movement, which furnished its students with a largely similar set of skills, and a tool used to deepen confessional divisions. The graduates examined on either side used the products of their education to emphasise the differences between confessions; however, the shared classical origin of theories and practices meant that they did it with remarkably similar skills, use of language, moral and ethical beliefs, and social capital. |
| Supervisor | Kontler, Laszlo; Jean-Louis Fabiani |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/swierad_katarzyna.pdf |
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