Educating the Catholic People

Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (1500-1800)
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43646-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: History of Early Modern Educational Thought

In Educating the Catholic People, David Salomoni reconstructs the complex educational landscape that arose in sixteenth-century Italy and lasted until the French Revolution. Over three centuries, various religious orders, both male and female, took on the educational needs of cities and states on the Italian peninsula, renewing the traditional humanist pedagogy. Historians, however, have not attempted to produce a synthesis on this topic, focusing mainly on the pedagogical activities of the Jesuits and neglecting the contributions and innovations of other groups. This book addresses this historiographical gap, providing a new chapter in the comparative study of pre-modern education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salomoni, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. State of research and historiographical problems

Chapter One:

Educating the Modern Catholics? Roots of Catholic Schools in Renaissance Italy (15th–16th cc.)

1. The Last Phase of Communal Education in Italy

1.1 Complexity of the Renaissance Communal School System

1.2 Weaknesses of the Renaissance Communal School System

2. The Catholicization of Italian Education

Chapter Two:

Historical Paths: The Definition of Pedagogical Identities (16th–17th cc.)

1. Male Religious Orders

1.1 An Educational Benchmark: The Jesuits

1.2 The Barnabites

1.3 The Somascans

1.4 The Piarists

1.5 The Theatines and the Servites

2. Female Religious Orders

2.1 The Ursulines

2.2 The Angelic Sisters and the Guastalla College

2.3 Rosa Venerini and Lucia Filippini: The Pious Teachers

Chapter Three:

Schools and Colleges: Processes of Settlement in Italy and Contiguous Areas

1. From Lombardy to the Kingdom of France

2. Schools for Northern Italy and Small Towns

3. A Congregation for the Large Cities

4. Between Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe

5. The Franciscans Between Continuity and Rupture

Chapter Four:

Different Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders

1. Public Education Entrusted to Religious Orders and Secular Priests

1.1 Udine and the Barnabites: On the Outskirts of the Peninsula

1.2 Jesuits and Piarists in the Duchy of Modena: A Competition Between Local Networks

1.3 Guastalla: A Multi-layered Religious Education for the Community

2. Episcopal Requests

2.1 The Somascans Between Schools and Diocesan Seminaries

3. Other Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders

3.1 Barnabite Schools Established by Notables and Aristocrats

3.2 The Religious as Private Teachers

3.3 Women, Nuns, Teachers: The ‘Educandato’ of Saint Charles

Chapter Five:

The End of an Educational Season

The Schools of Religious Orders Between Scientific and Political Revolutions (17th–18th cc.)

1. The Scientific Culture: Religious Orders on the Eve of Modernity

1.1 Famiano Michelini and the Galilean Piarists

1.2 Baranzano Redento

2. School Reforms in the Age of Enlightenment

2.1 The European Situation

2.2 The Situation in Italy: The Italian States and the Religious Orders

3. Conclusion

Consulted Archives

Published Sources

Early Printed Books (before 1830)

Modern Bibliography (after 1830)

Index of Maps

1. Map of Barnabite Schools in Italy

2. Map of Somascan Schools in Italy

3. Map of Somascan Schools in Lombardy

4. Map of Theatine Schools in Italy

5. Map of Piarist Schools in Italy

6. Map of Jesuit Schools in the Duchy of Modena

7. Map of Piarist Schools in the Duchy of Modena

Über Autor(innen)

David Salomoni, Ph.D. (2017, University of Rome III and Université d’Avignon) is post-doc researcher for the ERC project “Rutter: Making the Earth Global” at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published monographs and articles in the fields of history of education and science, history of religious orders, gender studies, and social and political history of pre-modern Italy. In 2017 he was awarded the Galileo Galilei prize for young scholars by the Rotary International.