Seminary or University?: The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

This is an account of the intellectual and social history of this key institution, its host city, its staff and its students. It deals with the struggle between the town, which sought to push the academy towards a broader approach to education, including law and medicine, and the Reformed Church, which wanted the academy to become a seminary for Protestant clergy, Isolated from the European mainstream the academy developed new scholars, and new and influential scholarship. The author has traced the origins, studies and future careers of many students and teachers, linked these individual histories to the great movements of history during the period and combined all the work into an account of the central institution of Reformed Europe.