The Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2004-09-29. Paperback. Good. 2004. The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801880556 9780801880551 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats-including increased student violence and competition from religious schools-ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century. ISBN 0801880556 9780801880551 [GB]

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Date: 2004. Paperback. New. 592 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. 2004. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr ISBN 0801880556 9780801880551 [GB]

ISBN10: 0801880556, ISBN13: 9780801880551, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Italian university has been credited with the rebirth of humanism and thus the flourishing of the Renaissance as we have come to understand it. Scholars of Italian humanism acknowledge the importance of the legal curriculum at universities in Pisa and Bologna for the rediscovery and renewed appreciation of classical texts. Few, however, have examined what life or the curriculum were like at Italian universities in general, in both major and minor city-states. This study, covering the period from 1400-1600, offers historians in the field not only an overview but also detailed information on the life of these Renaissance universities.According to the author, this book addresses Italian universities of the Renaissance in two complementary ways. It follows in broad lines the changes in various academic disciplines, as new issues and themes appeared and older ones waned. It also notes changes in the organization of the university, such as the creation of professorships in new subjects and their elimination in older ones. The impact of scholars in their disciplines in many cases depended on the structural changes their university was willing to make to accommodate new lines of inquiry.The book studies all sixteen of the leading Italian universities. Part I charts the rise and flourishing of Italian ...