Aristotle in Coimbra is the first book to cover the history of both the College of Arts in Coimbra and its most remarkable cultural product, the Cursus Conimbricensis, examining early Jesuit pedagogy as performed in one of the most important colleges run by the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century.

This book provides both a narrative of the historical background behind the publication of the Cursus and an analysis of the major philosophical and educational issues addressed by its commentaries and disputations on Aristotle's writings. It is valuable reading for all those interested in intellectual history, the history of education and the history of philosophy.

Cristiano Casalini teaches the history of education at the University of Parma. He has worked on critical texts and commentaries of sixteenth and seventeenth-century classics of education, especially in and around the Jesuit order. With Claude Pavur SJ he co-edited Jesuit Pedagogy (1540-1616): A Reader (2016). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and a Visiting Professor at the Lynch School of Education, both at Boston College.

Preface by John W. O'Malley

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 - The Gouveia affair

2 - A province committed to education

3 - The Cursus

4 - The problem of the teacher

5 - The problem of the cause

5.1 - Specific metaphysics

5.2 - Secondary causes, ulterior motives

5.3 - Hazards and probabilities

Bibliography

Index