Wisdom's workshop : the rise of the modern university /

When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in mediev...

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Main Author: Axtell, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foundings
  • Oxbridge
  • The collegiate way abroad
  • A land of colleges
  • The German impress
  • Coming of age
  • Multiversities and beyond.