Contents -- Preface -- List of plates -- List of tables and graphs -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A Learned Acquaintance. Jan van Galecop (c.1375-1428) and the Modern Devotion -- The Education of the Noble Wassenaar Family -- Education or Connections? Learned Officials in the Council of Holland and Zeeland in the Fifteenth Century -- The City Magistracy in Leiden and Academic Legal Advice around the Middle of the Fifteenth Century -- Overqualified for Their Jobs? Rural Deans in the Diocese of Liège (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) -- Wessel Gansfort as a Teacher at the Cistercian Abbey of Aduard. The Dismissal of Caesarius of Heisterbach's: Dialogus miraculorum -- "Pro inchoacione librarie." A Close Look at Two Late-Medieval Schoolmasters and Their Books -- The Gouda Circle of Humanists -- Between Aea and Golgotha. The Education and Scholarship of Matthijs De Castelein (c.1485-1550) -- Writing Poetry as Intellectual Training. Chambers of Rhetoric and the Development of Vernacular Intellectual Life in the Low Countries between 1480 and 1600 -- A Chaste Joseph for Schoolboys. On the Editions of Cornelius Crocus' Sancta Comoedia Ioseph (1536-1548) -- The Bookkeeper's Tale. Learning Merchant Skills in the Northern Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century -- A Sixteenth-Century Book Catalogue from Delft -- Two Illustrated Catechisms from Antwerp by Petrus Canisius -- Studying Abroad. The Student Years of Two Frisian Brothers at Cologne and Douai (1582-1593) -- The Portrayal of Student Life and Universities in the Early Modern Period -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.