In The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities, Sari Kivisto examines scholarly vices in the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods. Moral criticism of the learned was a favourite theme of Latin dissertations, treatises and satires written in Germany ca. 1670-1730. Works on scholarly pride, logomachy, curiosity and other vices kept the presses running at German Protestant universities as well as farther north. Kivisto shows how scholars constructed fame and how the process involved various means of producing celebrity. The book industry, plagiarism...