Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)

Introduction
Raf Van Rooy and Maxime Maleux, on behalf of the editors

Education in early modern Latin Europe: A scene from Leuven
Structure of the research companion
Why Leuven?
Acknowledgments
Notes
References

Part I—The Basics of Student Notes Research

Chapter 1—The Making of Student Notes
Ann M. Blair

The survival of student notes
The forms of student notes
Methods of note-taking in the classroom
What can and cannot be learned from student notes
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
References

Chapter 2—Getting a First Grasp of Student Notes
Raf Van Rooy and Xander Feys

Introduction
Referentiality, fragmentariness, and provenance
Paleography
Drawing up a typology for student notes
4.1. Form
4.2. Structure
4.3. Contents
Conclusion
Exercise
Notes
References
Transcription and model solution

Chapter 3—The Materiality of the Student Notebook
Jarrik Van Der Biest

Introduction
From paper mill to preservation
Analysis
3.1. Quire structure
3.2. Distribution of watermarks
3.3. Dates
3.4. Textual divisions, codicological blocks
Notes
Thematic bibliography

Chapter 4—Book History: The Basics with Two Case Studies
Natasha Constantinidou, Dieter Cammaerts, and Violet Soen

Introduction
An increasingly interdisciplinary field
Production and distribution of printed books
From production to consumption: An inquiry into material objects
Analyzing printed text editions: Aspects of book history in practice
Conclusions
Notes
Thematic bibliography

Chapter 5—How to Make Student Notes Accessible
Raf Van Rooy

Introduction
Choose wisely from the start
2.1. Diplomatic and semi-diplomatic transcription
2.2. XML
2.3. The act of transcribing: Benefits and tools
2.4. Good practices
Conclusion
Notes
References

Student Notes Toolkit

Part II—The Potential of Student Notes Research

Chapter 6—History of Education
Daniel Gehrt and Michael Stolberg

Introduction
The diversity and flexibility of basic academic education
Training for professional practice: Medical students’ notebooks
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 7—Intellectual History
Lorenz Demey, Marc Laureys, Maxime Maleux, and Andy Peetermans

Introduction
Revolutionary rhetoric versus didactic continuity: Juvenal in Bologna
Official policies versus didactic non-conformism: The university of Leuven and the Wegestreit
Textbook canonicity versus didactic creativity
4.1. Aristotelian diagrams beyond the square of opposition
4.2. Hebrew in Leuven and Paris
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 8—Book History
Xander Feys and Raf Van Rooy

Introduction
Book circulation
Interleaving for intermezzi
Student practices in handling books and their flaws
Pedagogic pragmatism
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 9—Visual History
Alicja Bielak and Gwendoline de Mûelenaere

Introduction
Visual elements in notebooks
2.1. Heterogeneous visual languages
2.2. Diagrams
2.3. The materiality of the image
Classification of images in student notebooks
3.1. Traditional university iconography
3.2. Scientific drawings and engravings
3.3. Symbolic language
Emblems as didactic and mnemonic devices
4.1. Scientific emblemata
4.2. Recuperation of emblematic devices
4.3. Emblems as memory aids
Conclusion
Notes
References

Chapter 10—History of Orality
Tomás Antonio Valle and Raf Van Rooy

Introduction
Conversational culture at Wittenberg university c. 1550
The oral/aural challenges of teaching and learning
Conclusion
Notes
References
Further reading

Chapter 11—Socio-Cultural History
Maximilian Schuh, Xander Feys, and Raf Van Rooy

Introduction
Case study 1: The arts faculties at Uppsala and Ingolstadt
2.1. Uppsala
2.2. Ingolstadt
Case study 2: Triangular teaching in Milan in about 1465
Case study 3: Aeneid 12 and the Turkish threat
Conclusion
Notes
References
Multilingual Glossary