A Cultural History of Higher Learning

Ning De Coninck-Smith, Julia Horne, Revd Dr William Whyte (Herausgeber)

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2025
Bloomsbury Academic
978-1-350-23220-4 (ISBN)

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How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 54 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries. Exploring higher learning rather than universities, the variety of institutional settings, organisational structures and relationships to the societies in which they belong are examined. A broader and more complex institutional approach is revealed, including ancient academies, monasteries, temples and in contemporary history, professional and technical schools. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6.

The 6 volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE); 2. Medieval Age (500-1400); 3. Renaissance (1400-1600); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1600-1760); 5. Age of Industry (1760-1900); 6. Modern Age (1900-present)

Themes (and chapter titles) are: Cultures; Geographies; Authorities; Teaching; Disciplines; Communities; Materialities; Contestations and Epitome.

The total extent of the pack is approximately 1,824 pages. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.

The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Higher Learning is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, and subsequently become a part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).

Ning de Coninck-Smith is Professor of History of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark. Julia Horne is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History and Fellow of St John’s College at the University of Oxford, UK.

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in Antiquity
Edited by Jan Stenger, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Jan Stenger
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Liba Taub
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Matthias Haake
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, Francesca Schironi
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Fotini Hadjittofi and Ana Vanessa Gonçalves Fernandes
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Maren Niehoff
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Han Baltussen
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Matthew Nicholls
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Lillian I. Larsen
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Medieval Age
Edited by Clare Monagle, Macquarie University, Australia

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Clare Monagle
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Yoichi Isahaya
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Aydogan Kars
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, Manu V. Devadevan
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Clare Monagle
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Micol Long
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Nina Caputo
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Sara Carreño
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Tineke D’Haeseleer
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Sita Steckel

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Renaissance
Edited by Lyse Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Lyse Roy
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Antoine Destemberg
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Geneviève Dumas
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, Abdurrahman Atçil
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Simona Negruzzo
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Jean-Luc Cam
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Maria Teresa Guerrini
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Richard Kirwan
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Lyse Roy
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Enrique González González

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Esther Mijers, University of Edinburgh, UK

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Esther Mijers
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Dirk van Miert
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Stefano Gulizia
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, Marianne Taatz-Jacobi
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Salvatore Cipriano
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Floris Verhaart
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Richard Kirwan
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Clarisse Godard Demarest and James Legard
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Richard Oosterhoff
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Julia Bray

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry
Edited by Heather Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK and Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology, Australia

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Heather Ellis and Tamson Pietsch
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Pieter Dhondt
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Heike Jöns
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, H.S. Jones
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Tom O’Donoghue
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Paul Turnbull
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Tomás Irish
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Sarah Longair
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Samuel Rutherford
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Charlotte A. Lerg

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Modern Age
Edited by Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, Australia and Chris Newfield, UC Santa Barbara, USA

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Hannah Forsyth and Chris Newfield
1. Higher Learning and Cultures, Shawn Wilson, Stuart Barlo and Rosemary Hill
2. Higher Learning and Geographies, Hannah Forsyth
3. Higher Learning and Authorities, Ellie Shermer
4. Higher Learning and Teaching, Peter Goodyear, Dewa Wardak and Lucila Carvalho
5. Higher Learning and Disciplines, Johan Östling
6. Higher Learning and Communities, Debaditya Bhattacharya
7. Higher Learning and Materialities, Cameron Logan and Hannah Lewi
8. Higher Learning and Contestations, Pedro Arantes and Santiago Schavelzon
9. Higher Learning and Epitome, Robert Morrell

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.7.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	150 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-350-23220-3 / 1350232203
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23220-4 / 9781350232204
Zustand	Neuware