Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe

From the Middle Ages to the Present

Pieter Dhondt, Elizabethanne Boran (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

436 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66770-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1. Students as Agents of Change? Part I: Forms of Action 2. Introduction: Forms of Action 3. Protesting in Paris, Toulouse and Caen at the End of the Middle Ages: Legal Means and Means of Action 4. In Defence of Their Privileges: Student Protest at the University of Orléans in the Early Fourteenth Century 5. Quarrels Under the Portico: Student Violence in Early Modern Italian Universities 6. Supporting Professors and the Professions?: The Medical Student Demonstrations of 1907-1908 in Paris 7. From the Struggle Against Repression to the 1968 General Strike in France 8. The Peaceful Revolts: 1968 in the Nordic Welfare States 9. No More Professors: The Peaceful Revolution in the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1968 Part II: Student Identity and Radicalism 10. Introduction: Student Identity and Radicalism 11. Moving Out!: Student Identity and Symbolic Protest at Eighteenth-Century German Universities 12. From the French Revolution to Tractarianism: Student Revolt and Generational Identity at the University of Oxford, 1800-1845 13. University Students After Italian Unification: Riots, Organisations and Political Engagement (1860-1885)

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-66770-3 / 0367667703
ISBN-13	978-0-367-66770-2 / 9780367667702
Zustand	Neuware