A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages

by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens

Overview

This is the first of four volumes that will comprise A History of the University in Europe, covering the development of the university in Europe (East and West) from its origins to the present day. No other up-to-date, comprehensive history of this type exists: its originality lies in focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective, and in its interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational character. Volume I, covering the Middle Ages, places the medieval European universities in their social and political context. After explaining the number and types of universities from their origins in the twelfth century to around 1500, it examines the inner workings as an institution and paints a general picture of medieval student life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521361057
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/07/1991
Series:	A History of the University in Europe , #1
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.42(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Jacques Verger; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Paolo Nardi; 4. Management and resources Aleksander Gieysztor; 5. Teachers Jacques Verger; Part III. Students: 6. Admission Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 7. Student education, student life Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 8. Careers of graduates Peter Moraw; 9. Mobility Hilde de Ridder-Symoens; Part IV. Learning: 10. The faculty of arts Gordon Leff; 2. The Quadrivium John North; 11. The faculty of medicine Nancy Siraisi; 12. The faculties of law Antonio García Y. García; 13. The faculty of theology Monika Asztalos; Epilogue: the rise of humanism Walter Rüegg.

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"This volume, the first of four parts of a general history of the European university, belongs in every college, university, and seminary library....it presents a comprehensive social, cultural, and to some extent intellectual history of the development of instutionalized higher learning in Europe from the time of the founding of the University of Bologna in the late twelfth century to the rise of Humanism around 1500." Susan Rosa, Sixteenth Century Journal

"...an important work of comparative history." Italian Quarterly

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"This volume, the first of four parts of a general history of the European university, belongs in every college, university, and seminary library....it presents a comprehensive social, cultural, and to some extent intellectual history of the development of instutionalized higher learning in Europe from the time of the founding of the University of Bologna in the late twelfth century to the rise of Humanism around 1500." Susan Rosa, Sixteenth Century Journal

"...an important work of comparative history." Italian Quarterly

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