History of University in Europe v1: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages (A History of the University in Europe, Series Number 1) - Softcover

Ridder-Symoens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521541131 ISBN 13: 9780521541138

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A synthesis of the intellectual, social, political and religious life of the early University.

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Review

"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

Book Description

This is the first volume on the medieval University as a whole to be published in over a century. It provides a synthesis of the intellectual, social, political and religious life of the early University, and gives serious attention to the development of classroom studies and how they changed with the coming of the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521541131
• ISBN 13: 9780521541138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536