Storing, Archiving, Organizing
Subtitle: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9789004334731
Subjects: Reformation
Description: "A study of the Lectorium at the Zurich Grossmünster, the earliest of post-Reformation Swiss academies, initiated by the church reformer Huldrych Zwingli in 1523. This institution of higher education was planned in the wake of humanism and according to the demands of the reforming church. Scrutinizing the institutional archival records, Anja-Silvia Goeing shows how the lectorium's teachers used practices of storing, archiving, and organizing to create an elaborate administrative structure to deal with students and to identify their own didactic and disciplinary methods. She finds techniques developing that we today would consider important to understand the history of information management and knowledge transfer"--