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Volume XXVI/1 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.

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Author:   Mordechai Feingold (Professor of History, California Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9780199652068

ISBN 10:   0199652066
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   09 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Articles Fritz Krafft: The Magic Word Chymiatria - and the Attractiveness of Medical Education at Marburg, 1608-1620: A somewhat different reflection on attendance Jane Finucane: The Invisible Virtuoso: Bengt Skytte and the Royal Society Christopher Stray: The Wooden Spoon: Rank (dis)order in Cambridge 1753-1909 Jill Pellew: A Metropolitan University fit for Empire: the role of private benefaction in the early history of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1895-1930 Reviews Gerald J. Toomer: Anthony Grafton & Joanna Weinberg, I have always loved the Holy Tongue : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship David A. Lines: Paul F. Grendler, The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584-1630 N. K. Sugimura: Joanna Picciotto, Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England Roger A. Mason: Roger L. Emerson, Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Judith Goodstein: Daniele Menozzi and Mario Rosa, eds. La storia della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: in una prospettiva comparative Judith Goodstein: Barbara Henry, Daniele Menozzi, & Paolo Pezzino (eds), Le vie della liberta: Maestri e discepoli nel 'laboratorio pisano' tra il 1938 e il 1943

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