Today's Medieval University (eBook)

M. J. Toswell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
118 Seiten
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-942401-25-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Just how medieval is the modern university? From their medieval beginnings in Western Europe, universities have remained monolithic and static entities, renovating themselves just enough to avoid massive interventions by the state or the church. Like parliamentary democracies, they function just well enough that while feelings of despair are frequent, and anticipation of imminent collapse constant, they continue. In the modern era, as universities face a new set of challenges, this book asks if there is not some value in pondering the medieval university, and the continuities that exist as much as do the fractures.

Autor

M. J. Toswell is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. A lifelong addict of governance, serving many roles both in the academic field and outside it, she currently serves on both Senate and the Board of Governors at Western. She publishes on Old English, manuscript codicology, and medievalism.

Rezensionen

"Today's Medieval University provides an excellent overview of the Medieval University; it gives a fine sense of the existing literature and the extent to which scholarship on the medieval university has and has not been a part of medievalism, the study of the Middle Ages in the post-medieval world." Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2017
• Verlagsort: Kalamazoo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: higher education • history of education • Institutional history • Medieval Studies • Universities
• ISBN-10: 1-942401-25-6 / 1942401256
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942401-25-4 / 9781942401254