The Promotion of"Civility" and the Quest for the Creation of a"City of Peace": The Beginnings of Trinity College, Dublin and of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.

• Autores: Elizabethanne Boran, Helga Robinson-Hammerstein
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 1998, págs. 479-505
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper seeks to investigate the process of the �transfer of knowledge"from the reformed university in Cambridge to the quite alien socio-political conditions of Ireland and later to the New World. The �transfer of knowledge� fiom the English to the Irish environment was seen as relocating an ideal replica of the original The same was intended in the case of the founding of Harvard by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Both new locations, i.e. Dublin (1592) and Harvard (1636), were identified by Puritans who took their role of �civilising� a wilderness and Christianising society very seriously. Universities, despite their medieval European origin, were thought of as vital instruments in the �civilising� process. A Puritan network, communicating between all three locations, can be identified; its members endeavoured to centre their �city of peace� on the universities and their refined scholarship; this seemed indeed easier in New England than in Ireland