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Dissenting academy libraries and their readers, 1720-1860

持异议的学院图书馆及其读者，1720-1860

基本信息

批准号：
AH/G014019/1
负责人：
Isabel Rivers
金额：
$ 46.67万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG014019%2F1
关键词：
Dissenting academy libraries their readers

项目摘要

The dissenting academy libraries project forms a crucial part of the research for a major new multi-authored 'History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860', to be edited by Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary, University of London) and David Wykes (Dr Williams's Library), together with Knud Haakonssen and Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex). The book will be published by Cambridge University Press, provisionally in 2013, with supporting materials online. The editors will draw on a team of established and younger scholars in the fields of religious, intellectual, political, social, and literary history. Despite considerable interest in the subject, seen particularly in work by political and literary historians, most recent studies rely on three out-of-date books published between fifty and almost a hundred years ago. Some important specialist work has been published in the last thirty years, but there has been no recent general history of the academies. The earliest dissenting academies were established as a result of the 1662 Act of Uniformity, and were intended to provide Protestant students dissenting from the Church of England with a higher education similar to that at Oxford and Cambridge, from which they were largely excluded. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the rival traditions of evangelical dissent (Congregationalist and Baptist) and rational dissent (Presbyterian and Unitarian) established their own academies. Their main purpose was to prepare candidates for the ministry, but some educated lay students as well. In the mid nineteenth century the academies' original purpose to provide a higher education was largely superseded by the founding of London and the provincial universities, which were open to dissenters, and by the reform of Oxford and Cambridge. The specific aim of this new project is to analyse and compare the libraries of the principal Congregational, Presbyterian, and Baptist academies, and in particular the use of the books by the students. Despite the wealth of surviving sources (archives, books, catalogues, loan registers, student essays and lecture notes) held at Dr Williams's Library, London, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Bristol Baptist College, these dissenting academy libraries have been surprisingly little studied. The project will address questions about the availability and use of books, methods of teaching and learning, the inculcation of traditional ideas, and the encouragement of original thought. What did students actually read? What was the relationship between taught courses and independent study? What was the role of the academies in training leading dissenting thinkers, in both religious and secular subjects? What part did academies play in maintaining orthodoxy or in encouraging heterodoxy amongst their students? The application to the Religion and Society Youth Call is for funding for two postdoctoral research assistants for two years and a technical assistant for one year to collect and analyse data and to write up the results. The outcomes will be the online publication with free access on the Dr Williams's Centre website of detailed data about the libraries, and the print publication of important chapters on libraries and their readers and on methods of teaching and learning in 'A History of the Dissenting Academies'. The project will make available for the first time accurate and detailed information about the higher education of dissenting youth during the period when Protestant dissent in England was subject to and later freed from legal restrictions. It will show the religious and intellectual diversity of the academies of different denominations, and will thus provide a comparative historical perspective for modern studies of education among religious minorities. The findings will be important for historians of the book and of reading as well as for educationalists, and for local historians and church members beyond the HE sector.

持不同意见的学院图书馆项目形成了一个重要的新的多作者的“历史的持不同意见的学院在不列颠群岛，1660- 1860年”的研究的重要组成部分，将由伊莎贝尔里弗斯（玛丽女王，伦敦大学）和大卫威克斯（博士威廉姆斯的图书馆），以及克努德Haakonssen和理查德Whatmore（苏塞克斯大学）编辑。该书将由剑桥大学出版社出版，暂定于2013年出版，并在网上提供辅助材料。编辑们将在宗教，知识分子，政治，社会和文学史领域建立和年轻的学者团队。尽管人们对这一主题有着相当大的兴趣，尤其是在政治和文学历史学家的著作中，但最近的研究大多依赖于三本出版于50年至近100年前的过时书籍。一些重要的专业工作已出版在过去三十年来，但一直没有最近的一般历史的院校。最早的反对派学院是根据1662年的《统一法案》建立的，旨在为反对英国国教的新教学生提供类似于牛津和剑桥的高等教育，他们在很大程度上被排除在外。在18世纪和19世纪初，福音派异议（公理会和浸信会）和理性异议（长老会和一神论）的竞争对手传统建立了自己的院校。他们的主要目的是为牧师准备候选人，但也有一些受过教育的外行学生。在世纪中期，学院最初的目的是提供高等教育，这在很大程度上被伦敦和地方大学的建立所取代，这些大学对持不同政见者开放，并被牛津和剑桥的改革所取代。这个新项目的具体目的是分析和比较主要的公理会，长老会和浸信会院校的图书馆，特别是学生使用的书籍。尽管在伦敦的威廉姆斯博士图书馆、牛津的哈里斯曼彻斯特学院和布里斯托浸会学院保存了大量的幸存资料（档案、书籍、目录、借阅登记、学生论文和演讲笔记），但这些持不同意见的学院图书馆却令人惊讶地很少被研究。该项目将解决有关书籍的可用性和使用、教学方法、传统观念的灌输和原创思想的鼓励等问题。学生们到底读了些什么？讲授课程和自学之间的关系是什么？学院在培养宗教和世俗领域的主要持不同政见的思想家方面发挥了什么作用？学院在维护正统或鼓励学生中的异端方面发挥了什么作用？向宗教和社会青年呼吁提出的申请是为两名博士后研究助理提供两年的资金，为一名技术助理提供一年的资金，以收集和分析数据并撰写结果。其成果将是免费访问威廉姆斯博士中心网站上关于图书馆的详细数据的在线出版物，以及关于图书馆及其读者的重要章节以及关于“持不同意见的学术界的历史”中的教学方法的印刷出版物。该项目将首次提供准确和详细的资料，说明在英国新教持不同政见者受到法律的限制和后来摆脱这些限制的时期，持不同政见的青年接受高等教育的情况。它将显示不同教派学院的宗教和知识多样性，从而为宗教少数群体教育的现代研究提供一个比较历史的视角。这些发现对这本书和阅读的历史学家以及教育学家、当地历史学家和高等教育部门以外的教会成员都很重要。