History of Universities: Volume XXXVI / 2

📖 The Scoop

This book contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews on the topic of the hstory of higher education. Chapters cover topics such as professionalisation of the theology curriculum at the University of Louvain, 1432-1600; Thomas Hobbes at the University of Oxford; intellectual culture in a seventeenth-century Parisian convent; and Anglican moral theology and the reception of John Locke’s essay ‘Concerning Human Understanding’. Further topics covered include David Gregory’s and John Keil’s Newtonian pedagogy and the fate of the soul in mid-eighteenth-century Oxford. The book finishes with two review chapters.

Genre: Education / History (fancy, right?)