This is an account of the intellectual and social history of this key institution, its host city, its staff and its students. It deals with the struggle between the town, which sought to push the academy towards a broader approach to education, including law and medicine, and the Reformed Church, which wanted the academy to become a seminary for Protestant clergy, Isolated from the European mainstream the academy developed new scholars, and new and influential scholarship.
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This is an account of the intellectual and social history of this key institution, its host city, its staff and its students. It deals with the struggle between the town, which sought to push the academy towards a broader approach to education, including law and medicine, and the Reformed Church, which wanted the academy to become a seminary for Protestant clergy, Isolated from the European mainstream the academy developed new scholars, and new and influential scholarship.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Octavo. 210pp. Ex-library with stamp and spine label, John H. Leith's copy with his bookplate and name penned on front endpapers, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine sunned with spine label. John H. Leith, former professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.
