LEUKOS' dataset: A selection of sixteenth and seventeenth century Stambøger from the Royal Danish Library (Copenhagen)

The data were generated to document LEUKOS’ research for objective 1, point 3 (O1.3) of the research project. LEUKOS’ research question (RQ) and brief description of O1: LEUKOS investigates whether and how, during his stay in Wittenberg (1586-1588), Bruno’s notions of the soul and of language were influenced by the new Protestant understandings of philosophy as evidenced by their discussions and suggested reforms of the liberal arts at the philosophical faculty and in Melanchthon’s works, and drew conclusions regarding the relation between Giordano Bruno and the Reformation. To reconstruct the social, intellectual, and political context in Wittenberg during Bruno’s stay (1586-1588) and pave the way for the interpretation of Bruno’s praise of the Reformers as tolerant (O1), LEUKOS reconstructs the environment that Bruno joined in Wittenberg at the time when Aristotle was reintroduced in the curricula of Luther’s university by focusing (O1.1) on the debate concerning the soul in Wittenberg (Gnesio-Lutherans and Philippists) in its philosophical and theological arguments, but also by referring to the political implications of this debate in the view of tolerance; (O2.2) on the role of female theologians and intellectuals in the reformed communities, and in the intellectual world, as the Reformation gave them access to direct participation in cultural and entrepreneurial professions (e.g. as printers); (O1.3) on Danish intellectuals in Bruno’s network as Wittenberg was a centre of diffusion of the Reformation also for the Scandinavian countries. Data generated: pictures of a selection of sixteenth and seventeenth century Stambøger (Alba Amicorum) belonging to the Royal Danish Library collections documenting the transnational intellectual network between Germany and Copenhagen in the second half of the sixteenth century and in the first half of the seventeenth century. The data might be useful to researchers working (1) on the history of the book, (2) on the Royal Danish Library sixteenth and seventeenth century book collections, (3) on Stambøger (Alba Amicorum), (4) on intellectual networks between Germany and Denmark in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

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