History of Universities - Volume XXXI / 2

This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

List of contents

• Articles


• School Ties: The Evidence of Alumni Friendships in Later Medieval England


• 'A Claim on Their Gratitude': Portrait Panels in the New Library of the Sorbonne


• A 1585 Oxford Ceremonial Student Oration: Text and Translation


• Amicus Galilæus sed Magis Amica Veritas: The true story of 'Galileo's Philoponus'


• Traces of an Academic Career in Renaissance Brandenburg: The Scottish Mathematician and Physician John Craig at Frankfurt on Oder


• The Scientific Revolution in Scotland revisited: the new sciences in Edinburgh


• Constructing Hidden Narratives: The History of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), at the University of Edinburgh, 1969-2013


• Reviews


• Gaines Post. The Papacy and the Rise of Universities


• Paul W. Knoll, 'A Pearl of Powerful Learning': The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century


• Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton and Charles Burnett, editors, The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe


• Nick Haynes, Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow; Nick Haynes and Clive B. Fenton, Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Edinburgh

About the author

Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

Summary

This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Mordechai Feingold, Mordechai (Professor of History Feingold
• Assisted by: Mordechai Feingold (Editor), Feingold Mordechai (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2018
• EAN: 9780198835509
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883550-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: History of Universities Series; History of Universities Series; History of Universities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, HISTORY / Reference, History of Education, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, universities, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher