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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Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-18
Mått:144 x 223 x 23 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History of Universities Series
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199550326

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ARTICLES ; Introduction: The Circulation of News and Knowledge in Intersecting Networks ; The Politics of Prognostication: Astrology, Political Conspiracy and Murder in Fifteenth-Century Milan ; Accessing nature, circulating knowledge: Conrad Gessner's correspondence networks and his medical and naturalist practices ; Apothecaries as experts and brokers in the sixteenth-century network of the naturalist Carolus Clusius ; Communicating mathematics in the late seventeenth century: The Florentine cupola ; Beyond the 'Moderns'? The Accademia Fisico-matematica of Rome (1677-1698) and the vacuum ; REVIEW ESSAYS ; Beastly Hebraism'?: John Selden and the Status of Masoretic Material in the Seventeenth Century ; The Historiography of Irish Colleges on the Continent. Reflection stimulated by recent publications ; Baltic Students in the Early Modern Period ; REVIEWS ; Patrick Gilli, Jacques Verger et Daniel Le Blevec (eds), Les universites et la ville au Moyen Age. Cohabitation et tension ; Peter Denley, Commune and Studio in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena ; James K. Farge (ed), Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500 ; Kathleen M. Comerford, Reforming Priests and Parishes. Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education ; Howard Hotson, Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 ; Stefanie A. Knoll, Creating Academic Communities. Funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tubingen 1580-1700 ; BIBLIOGRAPHY