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Project Citation: 

de la Croix, David, and Morault, Pauline. Replications files for “Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-03-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E223941V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using a new database of European academics, we build a network of universities that is based on professors' mobility. We describe how the network was altered following the Protestant Reformation. We focus on fragmentation and on universities' centrality. Dyadic regressions confirm that geography and vernacular languages were important for mobility, but did not substitute for religion. We compare simulated networks with and without religious identity. Most universities lose centrality in the simulated religious network compared to the non-religious one. As publications per university are correlated with centrality, the loss of connectedness of many universities after the Reformation contributed to their scientific decline.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources ERC Horizon 2020 (883033)

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Human capital; Reformation; Universities; Secularization; Network; Publications
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Europe
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1000 – 1800 (premodern)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2017 – 2024
Universe:  View help for Universe Scholars who taught at a premodern European University
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Data collected from secondary sources on the history of universities


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