The Bees’ Honey: Remarks on Students as Agents of Knowledge in Renaissance Europe Through the Case of Simon Clüver (1540–1598)

• VALENTINA LEPRI ^[1]
  1. [1] Academia Polaca de Ciencias, Varsovia
• Localización: Mediterranea.: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, ISSN-e 2445-2378, Nº. 7, 2022, págs. 71-94
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article argues that the notebooks produced by students during their stay abroad can become precious documentary evidence of early modern knowledge creation and organization. From the second half of the fifteenth century an unprecedented availability of paperled studentsto take notesfreely on anything they considered useful orinteresting for their education and, more generally, for their future. The case study of the notebooks belonging to a student from Danzig who stayed in Wittenberg in the 1560s, will show how the multi-text documents produced by students contribute to a better understanding of both their educational needs and their original reworking of academic knowledge