Full Description
Volume XXVII/2 of History of Universities 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.
Contents
ARTICLES ; Machiavelli at University, and the Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio ; Kepler's Disputation on Copernicus' Opinions ; The Establishment of a First-Class University Library': The Beginnings of the University of London Library ; The Domestic Laws of Oxford and Cambridge: External Interference and Internal Interpretation ; REVIEW ESSAYS ; Joseph Scaliger's Letters: Collaborator, Teacher, Impresario ; Late, but not too Late. Eugenio Garin's History of Italian Philosophy ; REVIEWS ; Spencer E. Young (ed.), Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities ; Karine Crousaz, L'Academie de Lausanne entre humanisme et Reforme (ca. 1537-1560) ; W. Bruce Leslie, Andrew Jewett, Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War ; Bibliography
