Selected books by Ramus

• Aristotelicae Animadversiones — Dialecticae institutiones, Paris, 1543; reprinted with an introduction by W. Risse, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1964.
• Peter Ramus’s Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus’s Brutinae Quaestiones, edited with an introduction by James J. Murphy and translation by Carole Newlands, Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1992. (Scholar)
• Collectaneae praefationes, epistolae, orationes, Marburg, 1599; reprinted with an introduction by W.J. Ong, Hildesheim, New York: G. Olms, 1969.
• Commentariorum de religione Christiana libri quatuor, Frankfurt am Main, 1577; reprinted Frankfurt a. M.: Minerva, 1969. (Scholar)
• La Dialectique (1555), M. Dassonville (ed.), Geneva: Droz, Travaux d’humanisme et renaissance, 67, 1964.
• La Dialectique (1555), un manifeste de la Pléiade, N. Bruyère (ed.), Paris: Vrin, 1992. (Scholar)
• Dialecticae institutiones, Paris 1543; reprinted with an introduction by W. Risse, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1964.
• Dialectica Audomari Talaei praelectionibus illustrata, Basel 1569.
• Diaelcticae libri duo per Rolandum Makilmenaeum Scotum, auctoris jussu in quibusdam locis emendati, Frankfurt, 1581.
• Quod sit unica doctrinae instituendae methodus, translated into English in Renaissance Philosophy, Leonard A. Kennedy (ed.), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1973, pp. 108–55.
• Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian: Translation and Text of Peter Ramus’s Rhetoricae distinctiones in Quintilianum (1549), translated by Carole Newlands; introduction by J.J. Murphy, DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986.
• Scholae in liberales artes, Basel, 1569; reprinted with an introduction by W.J. Ong, Hildesheim, New York: G. Olms, 1970.
• Scholarum mathematicarum libri unus et triginta a Lazaro Schonero recogniti et emendati, Frankfurt am Main, 1599; reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2008. (Scholar)

Selected books and articles on Ramus

• Banosius, Theophilus, 1577, Petri Rami Varomandui vita, philosophiae et eloquentiae Regii professoris celeberrimi, printed in P. Ramus, Commentariorum de religione Christiana libri IV, Frankfurt, 1577. (Scholar)
• Berthoud, Jean-Marc, 2020, Peter Ramus: Precursor to Descartes against the Confessional Reformed Faith. The Reformation, Reformed Scholasticism, and the Puritan Legacy, Monticello: Psalm 78 Ministries. (Scholar)
• Bruyère-Robinet, N., 1984, Méthode et dialectique dans l’oeuvre de La Ramée: Renaissance et Age classique, Paris: Vrin.
• Burton, Simon J.G., 2024, Ramism and the Reformation of Method. The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Couzinet, Marie-Dominique, 2015, Pierre Ramus et la critique du pédantisme: Philosophie, humanisme et culture scolaire au XVIe siècle, Paris: Honoré Champion. (Scholar)
• Desmaze, Charles, 1864, P. Ramus: sa vie, ses écrits, sa mort. (1515–1572), Paris; reprinted Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1970. (Scholar)
• Freigius, Johannes Thomas, 1599, Petri Rami Vita, in Ramus, Collectaneae, pp. 580–623. (Scholar)
• Feingold, M., J.S. Freedman, and W. Rother (eds.), 2001, The Influence of Petrus Ramus: Studies in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Philosophy and Sciences, Basel: Schwabe. (Scholar)
• Freedman, Joseph S.,1993, “The Diffusion of the Writings of Petrus Ramus in Central Europe, c. 1570–c. 1630”, Renaissance Quarterly, 46: 98–152. (Scholar)
• Gilbert, N.W., 1960, Renaissance Concepts of Method, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Goulding, Robert, 2006, “Method and Mathematics: Petrus Ramus’s Histories of the Science”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 67: 63–85. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• Grafton, Anthony & Jardine, Lisa, 1986, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Europe, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
• Graves, Frank P., 1912, Peter Ramus and the Educational Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, New York: The Macmillan Company. (Scholar)
• Henderson, Judith Rice, 1999, “Must a Good Orator Be a Good Man? Ramus in the Ciceronian Controversy”, in Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honor of Heinrich F. Plett, Peter Oesterreich and Thomas Sloane (eds.), 43–56. Leiden: Brill (Scholar)
• Hooykaas, R., 1958, “Humanisme, science et réforme. Pierre de la Ramée (1515–1572)”, Free University Quarterly, 5: 167–294. (Scholar)
• Hotson, Howard, 2000, Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588–1638. Between Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications 1543–1630, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, The Reformation of Common Learning. Post-Ramist Method and the Reception of the New Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ingemarsdotter, Jenny, 2011, Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform. An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645), Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet. (Scholar)
• Jardine, Nicholas & Segonds, Alain, 2001, “A Challenge to the Reader: Ramus on Astrologia without Hypotheses” in The Influence of Petrus Ramus: Studies in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Philosophy and Sciences, M. Feingold, J. S. Freedman, and W. Rother (eds.) Basel: Schwabe. (Scholar)
• Kneale, W. and M. Kneale, 1962, The Development of Logic, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Knight, Sarah & Wilson, Emma Annette (eds.), 2019, The European Contexts of Ramism, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
• Mack, Peter, 1998, “Ramus Reading: The Commentaries on Cicero’s Consular Orations and Vergil’s Eclogies and Georgics”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 61: 111–141. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Ramus and Ramism: Rhetoric and Dialectic”, in Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World, Steven J. Reid and Emma Annette Wilson (eds.), Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 7–23. (Scholar)
• Meerhoff, K., 1986, Rhétorique et poétique au XVIe siècle en France. Du Bellay, Ramus et les autres, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
• Meerhoff, K. and J.-C. Moisan (eds.), 1997, Autour de Ramus: Texte, théorie, commentaire, Quebec: Nuit Blanche. (Scholar)
• Meerhoff, K. and M. Magnien (eds.), 2004, Ramus et l’université, Paris: Rue d’Ulm, Broché Cahiers V.L. Saulnier. (Scholar)
• ––– (eds.), 2005, Autour de Ramus: Le Combat, Paris: H. Champion. (Scholar)
• Nancelius, Nicolaus, 1599, Petri Rami Vita, edited with an English translation and introduction by Peter Sharratt in Humanistica Lovaniensia, XXIV (1975): 161–277. (Scholar)
• Oldrini, G., 1997, La disputa del metodo nel Rinascimento: Indagini su Ramo e sul ramismo, Florence: Le Lettere. (Scholar)
• Ong, W.J., 1958, Ramus. Method and the Decay of Dialogue, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Prantl, C., 1855–1870, Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande, 4 vols, Leipzig; reprinted Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1955. (Scholar)
• Reid, Steven J. and Emma Annette Wilson (eds.), 2011, Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World, Farnham: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Robinet, André, 1996, Aux sources de l’esprit cartésien: L’axe La Ramée-Descarte; De la “Dialectique” de 1555 aux “Regulae”, Paris: J. Vrin. (Scholar)
• Sellberg, Erland, 1979, Filosofin och nyttan I. Petrus Ramus och ramismen, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis [with English summary]. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “The Impact of Education on Early Modern Political Culture”, (Re-)Contextualizing Literary and Cultural History: The Representation of the Past in Literary and Material Culture, E. Wåghäll Nivre, B. Schirrmarcher, and C. Egerer (eds.), Stockholm: Stockholm University, pp. 207–219. (Scholar)
• –––, “Petrus Ramus and Ramism”, in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, Margaret King (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. (Scholar)
• Sharratt, P., 1972, “The Present State of Studies on Ramus”, Studi francesi, 47–48: 201–213. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, “Recent work on Peter Ramus (1970–1986)”, Rhetorica, 5: 7–58. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “Ramus 2000”, Rhetorica, 18: 399–455. (Scholar)
• Skalnik, James, 2002, Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance, Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. (Scholar)
• Tuve, Rosemund, 1947, Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery:Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Waddington, C., 1855, Ramus, sa vie, ses écrits et ses opinions, Paris, 1855; reprinted C. Brown Reprint Library, Dubuque, IA: Brown Reprint Library, 1969. (Scholar)
• Wainwright, Michael, 2018, Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Wilson, Emma Annette, 2019, “The International Nature of Britannic Ramism”, in The European Contexts of Ramism, by Sarah Knight and Emma Annette Wilson (eds.), Turnhout: Brepols, 153–185. (Scholar)
• Vasoli, C., 1968, La dialettica et la retorica dell’umanesimo. “Invenzione” e “metodo” nella cultura del XV e XVI secolo, Milan: Feltrinelli. (Scholar)
• Verdonk, J.J., 1966, Petrus Ramus en de wiskunde, Assen: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)

Further Reading

• Akkerman, F. and A. Vanderjagt (eds.), 1988, Rudolphus Agricola Phrisius 1444–1485, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
• Dreitzel, H., 1970, Protestantischer Aristotelismus und absoluter Staat. Die “Politica” des Henning Arnisaeus (1575–1636), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. (Scholar)
• Dumitriu, Anton, 1977, History of Logic, II, Tunbridge Wells: Abacus Press. (Scholar)
• Freedman, J., 1988, European Academic Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: The Life, Significance, and Philosophy of Clemens Timpler (1563/4–1624), 2 volumes, Zurich: G. Olms. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Philosophy and the Arts in Central Europe, 1500–1700: Teaching and Texts at Schools and Universities, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Howell, W.S., 1956, Logic and Rhetoric in England 1500–1700, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Mack, Peter, 2011, A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380–1620, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Risse, Wilhelm, 1964, Die Logik der Neuzeit, I: 1540–1640, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog. (Scholar)
• Rummel, E., 1995, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Schmitt, C.B., 1972, Cicero Scepticus: A Study of the Influence of the Academica in the Renaissance, The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Schmitt, C.B., Q. Skinner, and E. Kessler (eds.), 1988, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Sharratt, P. (ed.), 1976, French Renaissance Studies: Humanism and the Encyclopedia, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)