Select Bibliography of English-Language Books for 43.386
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N.B. This select bibliography does NOT include articles included in the Course
Reader.
General Works on Colleges/Universities
Bender, Thomas., ed. The University and the City: from medieval origins to the present. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Ridder-Symoens, Hilde. A History of the University in Europe, vol. II, Early Modern Europe
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Rudy, Willis. The universities of Europe, 1100-1914: a history. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 1984.
Thorndike, Lynn, ed., University Records and Life in the Middle Ages, 75-78 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1944, repr. In New York by Octagon Books, 1971).
Medieval Colleges/Universities
Constantinides, C.N. Higher Education in Byantium in the thirteenth and early
fourteenth centuries. Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre, 1982.
Courteny, William J. and Jurgen Miethke, eds. Universities and schooling in medieval
society. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000.
Hunt, Janin. The university in medieval life, 1179-1499. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &
Co., 2000.
Pedersen, Olaf. Studium Generale: The first universities in Europe. Trans. Richard
North. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Piltz, Anders. The World of Medieval Learning. Trans. David Jones. Oxford: Blackwell,
1981.
Rait, Robert. Life in the medieval university. ?? Nabu Press, 2010? [reprint?].
Ridder-Symoens, Hilde. Universities in the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
English Colleges/Universities
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Burgess, Clive and Martin Heale, eds. The late medieval English college and its
context. Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 2008.
Cobban, Alan The medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to ca. 1500.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Italian Colleges/Universities
Clough, Cecil H. “Cardinal Gil Albornoz, the Spanish College in Bologna, and the Italian
Renaissance.” In Evelio Verdera y Tuells (ed.), El Cardinal Albornoz y el Colegio de
España. 6 vols. Vol. 2, pp. 227-238. Bologna: Real Colegio de Espana, 1972.
Davies, Jonathan. Culture and Power: Tuscany and its universities, 1537-1609. Leiden and
Boston: Brill, 2009.
Denley, Peter. “Communities within communities: Student identity and student groups in
late medieval Italian universities.” In Luciana Sitran Rea and Francesco Piovan, eds.
Studenti, universita, citta nella storia padovani, pp. 723-744. Atti del convegno di studi, 6-8
febbraio 1998. Trieste: LINT 2001.
Donnelly, John Patrick. “The Jesuit College at Padua: Growth, Suppression, Attempts at
Restoration: 1552-1606.” Archivium Historicum Societatis Iesu 56 (1982): 45-79.
Fletcher, J.M. “The Spanish College—Some Observations on its Foundations and Early
Statutes.” In Evelio Verdera y Tuells (ed.), El Cardinal Albornoz y el Colegio de
España. 6 vols. Vol. 2, pp. 73-91. Bologna: Real Colegio de Espana, 1972.
Grendler, Paul F. Universities of the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2002.
Grendler, Paul F. The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, & the Jesuits, 1584-1630. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Marti, Berthe. The Spanish College at Bologna in the Fourteenth Century. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.
Siraisi, Nancy. Arts and Sciences at Padua. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
1973.
Siraisi, Nancy. Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600. Leiden and Boston: Brill,
2001.
Woolfson, Jonathan. Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485-1603. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1998.
French Colleges/Universities
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Courtenay, William J. Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Scholarly Portrait.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Courtenay, William. Teaching Careers at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Centuries. Texts and Studies in the History of Medieval Education, 18. South
Bend: Notre Dame, 1988.
Lowe, K. J. P. “Cardinal Francesco Soderini’s Proposal for an Italian College at Paris in
1524.” History of Univerisities 4 (1984): pp. 167-178.
American Colleges/Universities
Horowitz, Helen. Alma mater: design and experience in the women’s colleges from
their beginnings to the 1930s. New York: Knopf, 1984, repr. 1993.
Horowitz, Helen. Campus life: Undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth
century.
Miscellaneous
Carpenter, Nan Cooke. Music in the medieval and Renaissance universities. New York: Da
Capo Press, 1958, repr. 1972.
Kagan, Richard L. Students and Society in Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1974.
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