Full Description
History of Universities XXXV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
Contents
Articles
William J. Courtenay: Oxford Supplications for Papal Provisions under Benedict XII
Jeremy Schneider: Scripting Speeches: A Manuscript Declamation in Sixteenth-Century Pedagogy
Mlada Holá and Martin Holý: Professors of the Utraquist University of Prague in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (1458-1622)
Mikkel Munthe Jensen: Teaching Natural Law at the University of Kiel: The History of an Academic Discipline, 1665-1773
Christopher Stray: The Slaughter of 1841: Mathematics and Classics in Early Victorian Cambridge
Review Essay
Sheldon Rothblatt: Apotheosis Now? Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars, The Fifth Wave, The Evolution of American Higher Education
Reviews
William J. Courtenay: Robert Greystones on the Freedom of the Will. Selections from his Commentary on the Sentences; Robert Greystones on Certainty and Skepticism. Selections from his Works, ed. Robert Andrews, Jennifer Ottman, and Mark Henninger
Robert Anderson: Paul Wood (ed.), Thomas Reid and the University
Theodore R. Delwiche: Eric Adler, The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today