Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

by Meelis Friedenthal

This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.

936 pages, Hardcover

Published November 19, 2020

About the author

The Estonian writer Meelis Friedenthal (b.1973) has written a doctoral thesis at Tartu University on a 13th century philosophical-theological treatise about seeing and vision. Friedenthal is currently Associate Professor in Tartu University and his research topic is the intellectual history of the Early Modern Period.

In 2013 his novel Willow King was one of the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL).