Product Description: The present volume, number VI in the series "Groningen Studies in Cultural Change", offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in Groningen in November 2001. It is the second of three volumes...read more

Product Description: The 10 papers in this volume examine university and pre-university education in the 14th to 16th centuries in Germany, Italy, France, and England. Topics covered include the recruitment and support of students, studying abroad, social status, careers of graduates, university rituals, the profession of schoolmaster, and the relation of the "studia" to the crown...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume aim to give medieval scholars the tools to explore the deeper history of disciplines and the origins and nature of university learning by posing a number of questions, such as how was learning conceived.

Product Description: This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel perspective on the history of both universities and cities...read more