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Klappentext Volume XVII of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The text is combination of research and reference material. Inhaltsverzeichnis Junior and Antiquior at the University of Paris at the End of the Middle Ages Malignancy and the Reform of the University of Oxford in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Oratorians and the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century France 'A College in the Air': Myth and Reality in the Foundation Story of Downing College, Cambridge The Making of the Modern Engineer: Analytic Rationality and Social Change in the Kingdom of Naples Enchanting Modernity: The Invention of Tradition at Two Women's Colleges in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Cambridge Review Essay Book Reviews Bibliography
