Dhondt / Boran Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe

From the Middle Ages to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-69102-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 52, 450 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite undoubtedly enforced their critical approach. This edited collection studies the role of students as a critical mass within their urban context and society through examples of student revolts from the foundation period of universities in the Middle Ages until today, covering the whole European continent. A dominant theme is the large degree of continuity visible in student revolts across space and time, especially concerning the (rebellious) attitudes of and criticisms directed towards students. Too often, each generation thinks they are the first. Moreover, student revolts are definitely not always of a progressive kind, but instead they are often characterized by a tension between conservative ambitions (e.g. the protection of their own privileges or nostalgia for the good old days) and progressive ideas. Particular attention is paid to the use of symbols (like flags, caps, etc.), rituals and special traditions within these revolts in order to bring the students’ voice back to the fore.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dhondt, Pieter

Boran, Elizabethanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Students as Agents of Change?

[Pieter Dhondt and Laura Kolbe]

Part I: Forms of Action

2. Introduction: Forms of Action

[Lyse Roy]

3. Protesting in Paris, Toulouse and Caen at the End of the Middle Ages: Legal Means and Means of Action

[Lyse Roy]

4. In Defence of Their Privileges: Student Protest at the University of Orléans in the Early Fourteenth Century

[Hilde de Ridder-Symoens]

5. Quarrels Under the Portico: Student Violence in Early Modern Italian Universities

[Christopher Carlsmith]

6. Supporting Professors and the Professions?: The Medical Student Demonstrations of 1907-1908 in Paris

[Pierre Moulinier]

7. From the Struggle Against Repression to the 1968 General Strike in France

[Jean-Philippe Legois and Alain Monchablon]

8. The Peaceful Revolts: 1968 in the Nordic Welfare States

[Fredrik W. Thue, Else Hansen, Thomas Brandt and Sigríður Matthíasdóttir]

9. No More Professors: The Peaceful Revolution in the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1968

[Hilda T.A. Amsing and Marieke Stuurwold]

Part II: Student Identity and Radicalism

10. Introduction: Student Identity and Radicalism

[Pieter Dhondt and Laura Kolbe]

11. Moving Out!: Student Identity and Symbolic Protest at Eighteenth-Century German Universities

[Steffen Hölscher]

12. From the French Revolution to Tractarianism: Student Revolt and Generational Identity at the University of Oxford, 1800-1845

[Heather Ellis]

13. University Students After Italian Unification: Riots, Organisations and Political Engagement (1860-1885)

[Elisa Signori]

14. Re-generation: Politicisation, Corps Identity and Generation Ga

Über Autor(innen)

Pieter Dhondt is senior lecturer in general history at the University of Eastern Finland.

Elizabethanne Boran is librarian of the Edward Worth Library in Dublin.