History of Universities: Volume XXXVI / 2

by Feingold, Mordechai

• ISBN13: 9780198901730
• ISBN10: 0198901739
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198901754
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-03-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

History of Universities XXXVI/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Table of Contents

1. From Cathedral of the Mind to Bulwark of Orthodoxy: The Professionalisation of the Theology Curriculum at the University of Louvain, 1432-1600, Jarrik Van Der Biest
2. Beyond the Jesuit College: the Role of Cambridge's 'Puritan' Colleges in European Politics and Diplomacy, 1603-1625, Eloise Davies
3. 'Is it you will undertake to teach the universities?' Thomas Hobbes and the University of Oxford, J.C.L. Hettrick
4. 'Minimizing' Marin Mersenne: Tracing the Intellectual Culture of a Seventeenth-Century Parisian Convent, Emily Kent
5. Unorthodox Conceptions of the Cartesian Mind, Inside and Outside the University of Leiden: Geulincx, Bontekoe, and Houbraken, Michael Jaworzyn
6. Christ Church, Oxford, Anglican Moral Theology, and the Reception of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, c. 1689-1725, Jacob Donald Chatterjee
7. David Gregory's and John Keill's Newtonian pedagogy: Oxford and the Scottish reception of Isaac Newton's natural philosophy, Lewis Ashman
8. 1709: A Winter of Content in the Republic of Meteorological Letters, Jin-Woo Choi
9. The Fate of the Soul in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Oxford: An Undergraduate's Conjectures, Natasha Bailey
10. Beyond the Ars Historica: the Role of Learned Societies and Academic Prize Contests in Shaping Dutch Historical Thought, 1750-1810, Eleá de la Porte
11. Teaching Race in the German Enlightenment: Christoph Meiners' History of Humanity in Institutional Context, Morgan Golf-French
Reviews
David A. Lines, The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy. Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna, Silvia M. Marchiori
Valentina Lepri, Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University. Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595-1627), Robert Frost