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History of Universities: Volume XXVIII/2

Mordechai Feingold

Abstract

This volume of the History of Universities contains the the usual mix of scholarly chapters and book review chapters. The volume provides a combination of original research and reference material. The topics covered include reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance; references to ancient Greece and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations from 1625 to 1850; the study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteen-century Protestant Germany; and the foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine from 1931 to 1934.

Keywords: universities, Sacrobosco, Renaissance, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Arabic, Sieff Research Institute, Protestant Germany, Mandatory Palestine

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780198743651
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743651.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Mordechai Feingold, editor
Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

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Front Matter

Title Pages

A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere

Richard J. Oosterhoff1

The Formal Presence of the Ancients

Anna Fredriksson

The Academic Study of Arabic in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Protestant Germany

Asaph Ben-Tov

From Political Rejection to Scientific Renewal

Uri Cohen

Olga Weijers, In Search of the Truth. A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times

Ann Blair

Jacques Verger & Olga Weijers (eds), Les débuts de l’enseignement universitaire à Paris (1200–1245 environ).

William J. Courtenay

Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch (eds.) on behalf of Rector Bernhard Eitel, Wissenschaftsatlas der Universität Heidelberg.

Howard Hotson

Daniela Prögler, English Students at Leiden University, 1575–1650. ‘Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs’

Esther Mijers

Jan Loop, Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century

G. J. Toomer

Jens Bruning, Innovation in Forschung und Lehre. Die Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Helmstedt in der Frühaufklärung 1680–1740

Joseph S. Freedman

Mark Burden, ed., Dissenting Academies Online

John Spurr

Yasmin Haskell, Prescribing Ovid: the Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

David Money

The Warden’s Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford 1601–1850

William Poole

Philosophical Academic Programs of the German Enlightenment: A Literary Genre Recontextualized

Jocelyn Holland