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History of Universities: Volume XXIX / 1

Mordechai Feingold

Abstract

Volume XXIX/1 of History of Universities contains the usual mix of chapters and book reviews. The series is a periodical devoted to the study of every aspect of university history development, structure, teaching, and research from the Middle Ages to the modern period, as well as to the history of scholarship more generally. The coverage of this volume ranges widely geographically, chronically, and in subject-matter.

Keywords: universities, university development, university teaching, history of scholarship, university structure

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780198779919
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779919.001.0001

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

Articles

Eclecticism as a Vibrant Philosophical Program: Claude Bérigard and Mauro Mancini on the University of Pisa

Renée Raphael*

Central European Polemics over Descartes: Johannes Placentinus and His Academic Opponents at Frankfurt on Oder (1653–1656)

Pietro D. Omodeo

Nominal Definition in the Seventeenth-Century University Disputations of the German Cultural Space

Meelis Friedenthal

Scholarship, Politics, and Jewish Identity in Italian Post-Unification Academia

Marco Di Giulio

Disciplinary Histories of Classics

Christopher Stray

Review Essays

Oxford College Histories: Fresh Contributions

Robin Darwall-Smith

Whose Space is it Anyhow?

Sheldon Rothblatt

In Mary Lyon’s Footsteps: The Historiography of Mount Holyoke College

Joel T. Rosenthal

Review

Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods, i: Books I–II; ii: Books III–IV, On Regressus, ed. and trans. John P. McCaskey (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2013), 352pp; 480 pp. ISBN: 9780674724792; 9780674724808

Per Landgren

Sari Kivistö, The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2014), viii+304 pp. ISBN: 9789004264120

Arnoud Visser

Maximilian Schuh, Aneignungen des Humanismus. Institutionelle und individuelle Praktiken an der Universität Ingolstadt im 15. Jahrhundert (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 47), (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013), xiii+286 pp. ISBN: 9789004230958

Richard Kirwan

Elizabeth Harding, Der Gelehrte im Haus: Ehe, Familie und Haushalt in der Standeskultur der frühneuzeitlichen Universität Helmstedt (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014), 388 pp. ISBN: 9783447102865

Asaph Ben-Tov

Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 551 pp. ISBN: 9780691149394

W. Bruce Leslie

Noël Golvers, Libraries of Western Learning for China. Circulation of Western Books between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (ca.1650–1750), ii: Formation of Jesuit Libraries. (Louvain: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute K.U. Leuven, 2013), 559 pp. ISBN: 9789082090901

Alexander Statman

Tamson Pietsch, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850–1939 (Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 2013). ISBN: 9780719085024

Sheldon Rothblatt

Correction: Dissenting Academies Online: (http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/portal.html)

John Spurr