Full Description
This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 1, 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
William J. Courtenay: Supplications to the Pope from the University of Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century
Eric Goddard: Demographic Representation and the Fifteenth-Century Crisis of the University of Paris
Berthold Kress: Studies on the Iconography of Universities in the Holy Roman Empire-Images on Seals and Maces
William Gibson: Strenæ Natalitiæ: Ambivalence and Equivocation in Oxford in 1688
Michael J. Turner: Maintain the old institutions in their old quiet way': Beresford Hope and the Religious and Political Dimensions of University Reform in Victorian Britain
G. R. Evans: 'University': The History of the Search for a Definition in England
Review Essays
John Heilbron: Richard Yeo, Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science; Renée Raphael, Reading Galileo. Scribal technologies and the two new sciences
Sheldon Rothblatt: James Axtell, Wisdom's Workshop
