This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in scho

This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in scho

This book and catalogue uncovers the richness, diversity and continuous scientific importance of early Swedish dissertations.

The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of

From the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities. This genre is especially attractive as