"...a badly needed synthesis of important recent research. Damian Leader's book is especially valuable because it avoids the two besetting sins of most university histories. First, it eschews the parochial, self-congratulatory tone of most such works: it is written not for the 'old boys' who want only to glorify Alma Mater, but for the serious historical student who is trying to fit the universities into the intellectual, social, religious, political, and economic history of the period. Second, while it does study institutional structures, it also faces the fact, often forgotten in histories of universities, that education, perhaps even thinking, was going on within those structures. What makes this history especially valuable is that it studies the universities as teaching bodies closely tied to the general development of society." Charles G. Nauert, Jr., The Sixteenth Century Journal

• List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Hostels, convents and colleges; 3. Teaching; 4. The trivium; 5. The quadrivium; 6. The philosophies; 7. Theology; 8. Law; 9. Medicine; 10. Interlude and expansion; 11. Internal reform; 12. John Fisher and Lady Margaret; 13. The Henrician Reformation; Bibliography; Index.

"...a badly needed synthesis of important recent research. Damian Leader's book is especially valuable because it avoids the two besetting sins of most university histories. First, it eschews the parochial, self-congratulatory tone of most such works: it is written not for the 'old boys' who want only to glorify Alma Mater, but for the serious historical student who is trying to fit the universities into the intellectual, social, religious, political, and economic history of the period. Second, while it does study institutional structures, it also faces the fact, often forgotten in histories of universities, that education, perhaps even thinking, was going on within those structures. What makes this history especially valuable is that it studies the universities as teaching bodies closely tied to the general development of society." Charles G. Nauert, Jr., The Sixteenth Century Journal

• List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Hostels, convents and colleges; 3. Teaching; 4. The trivium; 5. The quadrivium; 6. The philosophies; 7. Theology; 8. Law; 9. Medicine; 10. Interlude and expansion; 11. Internal reform; 12. John Fisher and Lady Margaret; 13. The Henrician Reformation; Bibliography; Index.

"...a badly needed synthesis of important recent research. Damian Leader's book is especially valuable because it avoids the two besetting sins of most university histories. First, it eschews the parochial, self-congratulatory tone of most such works: it is written not for the 'old boys' who want only to glorify Alma Mater, but for the serious historical student who is trying to fit the universities into the intellectual, social, religious, political, and economic history of the period. Second, while it does study institutional structures, it also faces the fact, often forgotten in histories of universities, that education, perhaps even thinking, was going on within those structures. What makes this history especially valuable is that it studies the universities as teaching bodies closely tied to the general development of society." Charles G. Nauert, Jr., The Sixteenth Century Journal

• List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Hostels, convents and colleges; 3. Teaching; 4. The trivium; 5. The quadrivium; 6. The philosophies; 7. Theology; 8. Law; 9. Medicine; 10. Interlude and expansion; 11. Internal reform; 12. John Fisher and Lady Margaret; 13. The Henrician Reformation; Bibliography; Index.