Synopses & Reviews
Volume XXV/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
Table of Contents
Articles Rex Fundator. Royal interventions in university colleges: Paris, Oxford, Cambridge (fourteenth-fifteenth centuries), Thierry Kouame
Inventing Islam in Support of Christian Truth: Theodor Hackspan's Arabic Studies in Altdorf 1642-6, Dietrich Klein
Book Economy in New College, Oxford, in the Later Seventeenth Century: Two Documents, William Poole
University history teaching and the Humboldtian model in Scotland, 1858-1914, Robert Anderson
Review Essays
Walter Charleton, Physician Extraordinaire, Gideon Manning
The Making of Princeton University, Sheldon Rothblatt
Book Reviews
Agostino Sottili, Humanismus und Universitatsbesuch. Die Wirkung italienischer Universitaten auf die Studia Humanitatis nordlich der Alpen, Peter Denley
J.R.L. Highfield, Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis 1603-1660, Robin Darwall-Smith
Alex D.D. Craik, Mr Hopkins' Men. Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century, Christopher Stray