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Tables of Contents for Men of Learning in Europe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
8
Part I: The Foundation of a Culture
Areas of Knowledge
9
29
The Bases: Latin and Aristotle
9
10
Legitimate Disciplines and Marginal Disciplines
19
6
The Higher Disciplines: Theology, Medicine, and Law
25
5
Social Utility or General Culture?
30
4
Scholarly Culture, Popular Culture
34
4
Education
38
27
Elementary Schools
40
5
The University
45
14
New Institutions
59
6
Books
65
18
Access to Books
66
6
The Contents of Libraries
72
4
From the Manuscript to the Printed Text
76
7
Part II: The Exercise of Competences
In the Service of God, in the Service of the Prince
83
21
Docere aut applicare
84
3
Men of Learning, Churchmen
87
8
A Golden Age of Jurists?
95
6
Conclusion: A Few Necessary Qualifications
101
3
Knowledge and Power
104
18
Knowledge and Ideology
104
6
From Service to Counsel
110
7
Esprit de Corps
117
5
The World of Practice
122
19
Scholarly Culture and Private Practice
122
3
The Intermediary Intellectuals
125
2
The Social Scope of Knowledge: Challenge or Inclusion?
127
14
Part III: Social Realities and Self-Image
New Men or Heirs?
141
14
Questions of Sources and Method
141
3
The Path of Study
144
6
Shifting Social Status, Adaptation, Reproduction
150
5
Ambitions and Representations
155
14
Clergy
155
3
Nobility
158
5
A ``Fourth Estate''
163
6
By Way of Conclusion: From Doctors to Humanists---Continuity and Innovations
169
8
Dominating and Sure of Themselves
169
2
New Ideas, New Men
171
6
Notes
177
13
Bibliography
190
3
Index
193