History of Universities Volume XVII [Hardcover]

Volume XVII of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, 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.

Junior and Antiquior at the University of Paris at the End of the Middle Ages,Laurent Tournier
Malignancy and the Reform of the University of Oxford in the Mid-Seventeenth Century,Elizabethanne Boran
Oratorians and the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century France,Roger Ariew
'A College in the Air': Myth and Reality in the Foundation Story of Downing College, Cambridge,Tim Hochstrasser
The Making of the Modern Engineer: Analytic Rationality and Social Change in the Kingdom of Naples,Massimo Mazzotti
Enchanting Modernity: The Invention of Tradition at Two Women's Colleges in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Cambridge,Joyce Senders Pedersen
Review Essay
Book Reviews
Bibliography