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

Hilde De Ridder-Symoens

ISBN 10: 0521541131 / ISBN 13: 9780521541138

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This, the first in the series, is also 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. Following the first stirrings of the University in the thirteenth century, the evolution of the University is traced from the original Corporation of masters and Scholars through the early development of the colleges. The second half of the book focuses on the century from the 1440s to 1540s, which saw the flowering of the University under Tudor patronage. In the decades preceding the Reformation many colleges were founded, the teaching structures reorganised and the curriculum made more humanistic. The place of Cambridge at the forefront of northern European universities was eventually assured when Henry VIII founded Trinity College in 1546, in the face of changes and difficulties experienced during the course of the Reformation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of the University in Europe : Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521541131
• ISBN 13: 9780521541138
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 31D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 31 millimeters depth
• Weight: 861 grams

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Synopsis

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

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