Overview

Volume XXII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

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Author:   Mordechai Feingold (Professor of History, California Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780199550326

ISBN 10:   0199550328
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Articles Sven Dupre and Sachiko Kusukawa: Introduction: The Circulation of News and Knowledge in Intersecting Networks Monica Azzolini: The Politics of Prognostication: Astrology, Political Conspiracy and Murder in Fifteenth-Century Milan Candice Delisle: Accessing nature, circulating knowledge: Conrad Gessner's correspondence networks and his medical and naturalist practices Florike Egmond: Apothecaries as experts and brokers in the sixteenth-century network of the naturalist Carolus Clusius Jeanne Peiffer: Communicating mathematics in the late seventeenth century: The Florentine cupola Federica Favino: Beyond the 'Moderns'? The Accademia Fisico-matematica of Rome (1677-1698) and the vacuum Review Essays N. K Sugimura: Beastly Hebraism'?: John Selden and the Status of Masoretic Material in the Seventeenth Century Helga Robinson-Hammerstein: The Historiography of Irish Colleges on the Continent. Reflection stimulated by recent publications Willem Frijhoff: Baltic Students in the Early Modern Period Reviews Lyse Roy: Patrick Gilli, Jacques Verger et Daniel Le Blevec (eds), Les universites et la ville au Moyen Age. Cohabitation et tension Christine Meek: Peter Denley, Commune and Studio in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena Thomas Sullivan: James K. Farge (ed), Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500 Paul Grendler: Kathleen M. Comerford, Reforming Priests and Parishes. Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education Michael Edwards: Howard Hotson, Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 Richard Kirwan: Stefanie A. Knoell, Creating Academic Communities. Funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tubingen 1580-1700 Bibliography

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