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Dissertation Information for Amy Enright

NAME:
- Amy Enright

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2004)

ADVISORS:
- William H Beik

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- James Van Horn Melton
- Sharon T. Strocchia

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The politics of education: Municipal colleges and political culture in early modern Champagne

Abstract: This is a comparative study of the sixteenth-century foundation of municipal colleges in Troyes and Châlons-sur-Marne, two of the most prominent cities in early modern Champagne, and their takeover by Catholic teaching orders in the seventeenth century. The city fathers of Troyes were drawn into educational administration by a sense of public duty rather than a concern for humanist curriculum or pedagogy. In contrast, the city fathers of Châlons-sur-Marne advocated educational reform and the establishment of a municipal college out of a desire to provide better Latin education to their sons. The administration of the municipal college in Châlons-sur-Marne reflected the alliances among lay and ecclesiastical factions that characterized contemporary political culture in the city. In both cities, a compound of socio-economic, political and pragmatic considerations motivated the city council to take on the tasks of educational administration and to cooperate with the diocese to found and run municipal colleges. The decision to cede those colleges to a Catholic order several decades later was not based on post-Tridentine religious zeal, for that motivation does not explain why Troyes, the Leaguer city, resisted a Jesuit establishment and Châlons-sur-Marne, the royalist city, pursued one so ardently. In each case, the city council's relationships with the monarchy dictated the choice of teaching order and the timing of the establishment. In Châlons-sur-Marne, the royalist city council followed Henry IV's example and welcomed the Jesuits into their city. In Troyes, the council continued to assert its independence by rejecting the Jesuits for over two decades, until they eventually bowed to the royal command to establish the Oratorians. The history of these municipal colleges demonstrates the eclipse of the feudal episcopate by sixteenth-century city councils and the growing strength of royal authority in the wake of the Wars of Religion.

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