ISBN : 9780198743651
Volume XXVII/2 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.
A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere: Reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance
The formal presence of the ancients: References to ancient Greek and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations, ca. 1625-1850
The academic study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Protestant Germany: a preliminary sketch
From Political Rejection to Scientific Renewal: Chaim Weizmann and the Foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine 1931-1934
REVIEWS
Olga Weijers, In Search of the Truth. A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Jacques Verger & Olga Weijers (eds), Les debuts de l'enseignement universitaire a Paris (1200-1245 environ)
Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch (eds.), Wissenschaftsatlas der Universitat Heidelberg
Daniela Progler, English Students at Leiden University, 1575-1650. 'Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs'
Jan Loop, Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century
Jens Bruning, Innovation in Forschung und Lehre. Die Philosophische Fakultat der Universitat Helmstedt in der Fruhaufklarung 1680-1740
Mark Burden ed., Dissenting Academies Online
Yasmin Haskell, Prescribing Ovid: the Latin works and networks of the enlightened Dr Heerkens
Scott Mandelbrote & John H.R. Davis eds, The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford 1601-1850
Seung-Kee Lee et al. eds, Philosophical academic programs of the German Enlightement: a literary genre recontextualized