A Brief History of Universities

• Main Author: Moore, John C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History.; Civilization-History.; Education-History.; Intellectual life-History.; European History.; Cultural History.; History of Education.; Intellectual Studies.

In this book, John C. Moore surveys the history of universities, from their origin in the Middle Ages to the present. Universities have survived the disruptive power of the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, and the turmoil of two world wars-and they have bee...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Middle Ages: 500-1500
• 3. The Early Modern Period: 1500-1789
• 4. The Nineteenth Century
• 5. The Twentieth Century.