Wisdom's Workshop : : The Rise of the Modern University / / James Axtell.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 28 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Foundings
- Chapter Two. Oxbridge
- Chapter Three. The Collegiate Way Abroad
- Chapter Four. A Land of Colleges
- Chapter Five. The German Impress
- Chapter Six. Coming of Age
- Chapter Seven. Multiversities and Beyond
- Epilogue. The Medieval Institution. That Ate the World
- Suggested Reading
- Index