The Rise Of Universities: Brown University, The Colver Lectures, 1923
"The republication of Charles Homer Haskins' "The Rise of Universities" is cause for celebration among historians of higher education and among medievalists of all disciplines...Haskins' argument is a powerful one: that today's university system is a direct (and immediate) descendent of the...
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"The republication of Charles Homer Haskins' "The Rise of Universities" is cause for celebration among historians of higher education and among medievalists of all disciplines...Haskins' argument is a powerful one: that today's university system is a direct (and immediate) descendent of the collections of scholars who gathered around master teachers in the great cities of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...[His] thesis was profound for its time and remains the guiding interpretation of medieval universities." --"Library Quarterly"
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781258249380 (1258249383)
ASIN: 1258249383
Publish date: 2012-03-17
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English