L'Université de Leyde et la République des Lettres au 17e siècle

Quaerendo ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Dibon
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The University

AbstractAlthough the University of Leiden was founded in 1575 under the most difficult circumstances, it managed to build up an international reputation, and was frequented by scholars from home and abroad before a quarter of a century had elapsed. In the early seventeenth century already the Academia Lugduno-Batava enjoyed considerable advantages, often the result of a concurrence of extraordinary circumstances and the careful policy of its Curators, so that all through the

Notes on the Introduction and Colophon of the Leiden Manuscript of Dioscorides' ‘De Materia Medica’

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud M. Sadek
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
The University

In the course of studying all surviving copies of Arabic Dioscorides manuscripts I have come across some interesting statements in the introduction and colophon of a Leiden manuscript of De Materia Medica. This manuscript belongs to the Warner Collection or Legatum Warnerium of the Library of the University of Leiden, Cod. Or. 289. This vast and valuable collection of oriental manuscripts was acquired by Levinus Warner in the early seventeenth century during his term of appointment as Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman court in Istanbul. The collection was given to the university upon the death of Mr. Warner in 1665.

The Trouble with Opium. Taste, Reason and Experience in Late Galenic Pharmacology with Special Regard to the University of Leiden (1575–1625)

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Core Problem

In the seventeenth century, the discrepancy between the taste of some drugs and their effects on the body was used to criticize Galenic medicine. In this paper, I argue that such contradictions were brought to light by the sixteenth-century study of drug properties within the Galenic tradition itself. Investigating how the taste of a drug corresponded to the effects it had on the body became a core problem for maintaining a medical practice that was both rational and effective. I discuss four physicians, connected to the University of Leiden, who attempted to understand drug properties, including taste, within a Galenic framework. The sixteenth-century discussions about the relationship between the senses, reason and experience, will help us understand the seventeenth-century criticism of Galenic medicine and the importance of discussions about materia medica for ideas regarding the properties of matter proposed in this period.


Hands across the Water: The Making and Breaking of Marriage between Dutch and Scots in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rab Houston ◽  
Manon van der Heijden
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The North ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The North Sea

At the time of the Reformation in the 1560s Scotland and the Netherlands already had long-established commercial links. Scots soldiers fought in the wars that ravaged the Low Countries and much of northern Europe in the two centuries after Calvinism gained a foothold. Goods, people, and ideas were readily exchanged in the North Sea basin. With the foundation in 1575 of the avowedly Protestant University of Leiden, academic and intellectual intercourse were added to trading ties. By the mid-seventeenth century Leiden had an international reputation for legal and medical education. Expatriate Protestant churches were established in the early seventeenth century, notably the Scots kirk, Rotterdam. There were nineteen English and Scottish religious communities in the Dutch Republic by the end of the seventeenth century.

‘An old and faithful servand’: A Pair of Early Seventeenth-Century Gauntlet Gloves given by King Charles I to Sir Henry Wardlaw

Costume ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Social ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The University ◽  
Design And Manufacture ◽  
Private Collections

A pair of embroidered seventeenth-century gauntlet gloves, reputedly presented by King Charles I to his courtier Sir Henry Wardlaw, was donated to the University of St Andrews in 2001. This article sets out to uncover the truth behind this nearly four-hundred-year-old family legend by investigating Sir Henry’s royal connections and the social significance of the gauntlet gloves as a high-status, luxury clothing accessory. Based on the study of historic gloves in museum and private collections, it endeavours to date the gloves by discussing their design and manufacture within the context of seventeenth-century clothing fashion. This article also explores the symbolism behind the gauntlet gloves’ decorative scheme by unravelling some of the hidden messages that are conveyed about cultural, religious, political and technological developments and perspectives through seventeenth-century embroidery.

scholarly journals Lettere ad Angelico Aprosio (1665-1675)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Nicolò Cavana
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Book Culture

The critical edition of the correspondence (1665-1675), today housed at the University of Genoa library, between the Genoan patrician Nicolò Cavana and the bibliophile Fra' Angelico Aprosio di Ventimiglia includes an introduction and transcription of the letters, with both bibliographical and (where possible) explanatory notes on some now outdated terms. In consideration of the private nature of the 286 letters, reading them gives an interesting and informal view of seventeenth-century life, as well as much information on the variegated world of the Baroque book culture providing a constant backdrop to the relationship of collaboration and friendship between the two figures.

scholarly journals Jacobus Capitein: Champion for Slavery and Resisting Mimic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hendrik L. Bosman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
First Year ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Articles Of Faith ◽  
The University

Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein (1717-1747) was a man of many firsts-the first black student of theology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, the first black minister ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands, the author of the first Fante/Mfantse-Dutch Grammar in Ghana as well as the first translator of the Ten Commandments, Twelve Articles of Faith and parts of the Catechism into Fante/Mfantse. However, he is also remembered as the first African to argue in writing that slavery was compatible with Christianity in the public lecture that he delivered at Leiden in 1742 on the topic, De Servitute Libertati Christianae Non Contraria. The Latin original was soon translated into Dutch and became so popular in the Netherlands that it was reprinted five times in the first year of publication. This contribution will pose the question: Was Capitein a sell-out who soothed the Dutch colonial conscience as he argued with scholarly vigour in his dissertation that the Bible did not prohibit slavery and that it was therefore permissible to continue with the practice in the eighteenth century; or was he resisting the system by means of mimicry due to his hybrid identity - as an African with a European education - who wanted to spread the Christian message and be an educator of his people?

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