Disputationes, dissertationes, repetitiones : travaux universitaires publiés aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique

Abstract

Organizing tests in order to evaluate learning processes as well as how well students are learning has always been an integral part of universities throughout history. Many such tests, printed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are preserved in a large number in the rare and precious printed books department of the Royal Library of Belgium. Either brought together in collections of important figures and universities or scattered together in miscellaneous collections, their appearance can take various forms like a single folio leaf or issues of multiple pages of the same size, quarto or octavo. With an as complete as possible systematic encoding and making best use of our current operating system – rectors, professors and dedications are explicitly included – through providing these genealogical data these documents relate to the history of education, social history or the history of printing.