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History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
List of contents
- Articles
- Preface
- From University to Court: Academic Moral Philosophy and Noble Virtues
- Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592-1667) in Prague: Jesuit Teaching on Ethics between Philosophy and Theology
- Ethics and Disciplines at Helmstedt: Aristotelian Debates in the Twilight of the Career of Nicolaus Andreae Granius (1607-1617)
- The Ethica Section in Wolfenbüttel and the Role of 'Academic' Writings in Early Modern Ethics
- Shifting from Aristotelianism to Modern Theories: Lessons on Ethics and State Power by Johann Weiss, Professor of Ethics and Politics at Giessen
- Virtutes docuit sedulitate bona: Johann Barthold Niemeier and the Teaching of Ethics in Late Seventeenth-Century Helmstedt
- Forming a Moral Conscience at School: Aristotle, Melanchthon and Franz Tidike's (1564-1617) Isagoge Ethica
- Minor Virtues? The Nicomachean Ethics and the Teaching of Rhetoric at the Akademia Zamojska
- The Emblems of the Altdorf Academy: Emblematic Pedagogy and Nuremberg Civic Culture
- Reviews
- Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.-16. Jahrhundert, eds Jan-Hendryk de Boer, Marian Füssel und Maximilian Schuh
- Paul F. Grendler, The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773
- Mary Clapinson, A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, Revised Edition
- Enrique González González, with the collaboration of Víctor Gutiérrez Rodríguez, El Poder de las Letras. Por una historia social de las universidades de la América hispana en el periodo colonial
- Ethan Schrum, The Instrumental University, Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II
- Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
- Stephen Whitfield, Learning on the Left, Political Profiles of Brandeis University
Summary
History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.