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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958741203321

Titolo

History of universities / / edited by Mordechai Feingold. Vol. 23/1

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-04483-X

1-281-82572-7

9786611825720

0-19-156199-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

378

378.009

378/.009

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - History

Education, Higher - History

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Articles; Academic Condemnation and the Decline of Theology at Oxford; Christ Church Oxford, the Ancients-Moderns Controversy, and the Promotion of Newton in Post-Revolutionary England; The Relationships Between Astronomical Observatories and Universities in nineteenth-century France; A Magnificent Fungus on the Political Tree: The Growth of University Representation in the United Kingdom, 1832-1950; Review Essay; Sitting Down at a 'Thyestean Banquet of Clap-trap'; Reviews; Leonardi Garzoni, Trattati della calamita, ed. Monica Ugaglia

Emanuela Scribano, Angeli e beati. Modelli di conoscenza da Tommaso a SpinozaL. E. Rodríguez-San Pedro Bezares (ed.), Historia de la Universidad de Salamanca. Saberes y confluencias, (Historia de la Universidad de Salamanca, Vol. III) (Simona Langella); William Whyte, Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924 (Sheldon Rothblatt); Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains the customary mix of learned articles, book



reviews, conference reports and bibliographical information, which makes this publication useful for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely in terms of geography, chronology and subject-matter.