Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany Book

Poor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe, which raised socially and politically sensitive questions. In addition to reconstructing the experience of poor students, this book uncovers the prescriptive norms inherent in both negative and positive perceptions of them.Read More

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    This book focuses on "poor students", young men in eighteenth-century Germany who owed their studies to charity, who formed a substantial minority within the theology faculties, and who entered careers in the clergy, the academic schools, and the universities. Professor La Vopa shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience central to the lives of many celebrated intellectuals as well as many of the elite.

  • 0521350417
  • 9780521350419
  • Anthony J. La Vopa
  • 26 August 1988
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 432
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