History of Universities: Volume XXIX / 1 (History of Universities Series)

Volume XXIX/1 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. Content: Cover Half Title Page Dedications Title Page Copyright Contents Articles Eclecticism as a Vibrant Philosophical Program: Claude Bérigard and Mauro Mancini on the University of Pisa, Renée Raphael Central European Polemics over Descartes: Johannes Placentinus and His Academic Opponents at Frankfurt on Oder (1653-1656), Pietro D. Omodeo Nominal Definition in the Seventeenth-Century University Disputations of the German Cultural Space, Meelis Friedenthal Scholarship, Politics, and Jewish Identity in Italian Post-Unification Academia, Marco di Giulio. Disciplinary Histories of Classics, Christopher Stray Review Essays Oxford College Histories: Fresh Contributions, Robin Darwall-Smith Whose Space Is It Anyhow? Sheldon Rothblatt In Mary Lyon's Footsteps: The Historiography of Mount Holyoke College, Joel T. Rosenthal Reviews Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods, i: Books I-II ii: Books III-IV, On Regressus, ed. and trans. John P. McCaskey, Per Landgren Sari Kivistö, The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities, Arnoud Visser. Maximilian Schuh, Aneignungen des Humanismus. Institutionelle und individuelle Praktiken an der Universität Ingolstadt im 15. Jahrhundert, Richard Kirwan Elizabeth Harding, Der Gelehrte im Haus: Ehe, Familie und Haushalt in der Standeskultur der frühneuzeitlichen Universität Helmstedt, Asaph Ben-Tov Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II, W. Bruce Leslie. Noël Golvers. Libraries of Western Learning for China. Circulation of Western Books between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (ca.1650-1750), ii: Formation of Jesuit Libraries. Alexander Statman Tamson Pietsch, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850-1939, Sheldon Rothblatt Correction Dissenting Academies Online: (http://www.english.qmul.ac. uk/drwilliams/portal.html), John Spurr.