Periodic Reporting for period 1 - UTHC (Did elite human capital trigger the rise of the West? Insights from a new database of European scholars)
Período documentado: 2021-01-01 hasta 2022-06-30
The issue at stake is to weight the significance of the scholars in universities and in scientific academies in generating the take-off of Europe to modern growth, through the humanistic and scientific revolutions.
Regarding the importance for society, there is a large interest in many European universities in more systematically recording the history of the university, as attested to by many university websites. Providing the database we intend to build is contributing to structuring the immaterial capital of Europe. Providing the research we intend to do with this database will help to rethink economic growth by unraveling the rich interactions between scholars & literati and its emergence.
The overall objectives are to build a database of a large sample of academic scholars in Europe over the period 1000CE-1800CE. Sources will be primary (published cartularia and matricula), secondary (books on the history of universities & academies), and tertiary (biographical dictionaries). To measure the quality of scholars, these data will be matched with the existing catalogues of publications. Then tol build a geographical grid of the density, composition, and quality of the UTHC across time, and correlate the UTHC at the cell level with the adoption of new techniques and better institutions, and the development of literacy, numeracy, and urbanization. The individual character of the data will allow basing causal identification on exogenous variations in the European network of both individuals and universities. The migration pattern of scholars will be used to identify sorting and agglom-eration forces, witnessing to the functioning of an academic market in the medieval and early modern periods. Families of scholars will be identified to assess the importance of nepotism vs human capital transmission.
Regarding the importance for society, there is a large interest in many European universities in more systematically recording the history of the university, as attested to by many university websites. Providing the database we intend to build is contributing to structuring the immaterial capital of Europe. Providing the research we intend to do with this database will help to rethink economic growth by unraveling the rich interactions between scholars & literati and its emergence.
The overall objectives are to build a database of a large sample of academic scholars in Europe over the period 1000CE-1800CE. Sources will be primary (published cartularia and matricula), secondary (books on the history of universities & academies), and tertiary (biographical dictionaries). To measure the quality of scholars, these data will be matched with the existing catalogues of publications. Then tol build a geographical grid of the density, composition, and quality of the UTHC across time, and correlate the UTHC at the cell level with the adoption of new techniques and better institutions, and the development of literacy, numeracy, and urbanization. The individual character of the data will allow basing causal identification on exogenous variations in the European network of both individuals and universities. The migration pattern of scholars will be used to identify sorting and agglom-eration forces, witnessing to the functioning of an academic market in the medieval and early modern periods. Families of scholars will be identified to assess the importance of nepotism vs human capital transmission.