The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9799216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guy Fitch Lytle (Sewanee: The University of the South, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 498 |
| Pages | 1080-1081 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem184 |
| OpenAlex | W2040638668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Paul Grendler's fine book now holds an honoured and helpful place on my study shelf devoted to medieval and Renaissance university histories (the 1936 Rashdall, Cobban, Courtenay, Stone, De Ritter-Symoens, Gabriel, Verger, the multiple volumes on Oxford and Cambridge, all of Emden's essential prosopographics, et al.). It is a worthy addition. Part I surveys the founding and early centuries of all the Italian universities, from Bologna and Padua to Messina and Parma. Here Grendler is understandably focused on ‘institutional history’, with one synthetic chapter on ‘The University in Action’, not really a social history, but on the internal functioning of university life, degree-granting, etc. Part II covers ‘Teaching and Research’, divided by individual faculties. Part III describes the ‘Recessional’ of these universities in the seventeenth century. A 52-page Bibliography is appended. It is no dishonour that Grendler was the third choice to write this book (following Paul Kristeller and
Action (physics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Italian Renaissance · Middle Ages · The Renaissance · Academic Freedom and Politics · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · History · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |