Mikkel Munthe Jense, Patriotism and Reform in Nordic Universities during the Long Eighteenth Century

(Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)

Patriotism and Reform in Nordic Universities during the Long Eighteenth Century

By Mikkel Munthe Jensen

This work examines the Nordic universities and how governmental reforms and growing patriotic sentiments consolidated the state and university in new shared endeavours of ‘utility for the fatherland’. In doing so, the study demonstrates how this development gradually replaced the centuries-old European academic cohesion with a system of competing national academic entities.

A rare book in English on the Nordic Universities during the long eighteenth century

Exciting new perspective on the impact of patriotism and governmental reforms in the eighteenth-century academic world

Uses new digital approaches to the study of the history of universities

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 
List of figures and tables

Introduction
Patriotism in the North
Nordic universities and university professors

1. Structural foundation and institutional practice: from European similarities to regional differences
2. Academia as a socio-cultural community
3. Consolidating State and University
4. Controlling academia: governmental needs for specialised knowledge
5. Nationalising academia: birthplace criteria and domestic precedence
6. Constraining academia: Nordic travels in a learned Europe
7. Endorsing patria, defending universitas: a learned patriotic estate

Conclusion

Bibliography, Archival sources, Primary sources, Secondary sources, Appendix, Prosopography of Nordic university professors 1700–1799, and Description of the use of the prosopography

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Mikkel Munthe Jensen is a research fellow at the Gotha Research Centre. He is a specialist in history of universities, knowledge and higher learning, and is currently leading a project on the institutionalisation of early modern natural law. His work has appeared, most recently, in the Journal of History of Universities.

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