There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary fashion. Ramus' influence extended across many disciplines and this book skilfully weaves together studies in intellectual history, pedagogy, literature, philosophy and the history of science. It will prove a useful starting point for those interested in Ramus and his impact, as well as serving to redefine the field of Ramist studies for future scholars.

Introduction, Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 1 Ramus and Ramism, PeterMack; Chapter 2 Andrew Melville and Scottish Ramism, Steven J.Reid; Chapter 3 Flat Dichotomists and Learned Men, SarahKnight; Chapter 4 Reading the 'unseemly logomachy', Emma AnnetteWilson; Chapter 5 Ramus, Printed Loci, and the Re-invention of Knowledge, RaphaelHallett; Chapter 6 The Secret of Success, AnitaTraninger; Chapter 7 Petrus Ramus and the Vernacular, KeesMeerhoff; Chapter 8 Ramus, Rheticus, and the Copernican Connection, DennisDanielson; Chapter 9 The Legacy of Petrus Ramus in U.S. Composition, RosaleenKeefe; Chapter 10 The Method of Exposition in Brynjolf Sveinsson's 'Commentary' (1640) on the Dialecticae of Petrus Ramus, GunnarHardarson; Chapter 11 The Reception of Ramist Rhetoric in Hungary and Transylvania, GáborKecskeméti; Chapter 12 The Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia, HowardHotson;

Steven J. Reid is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and Emma Annette Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.