Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe

by Blaise Cronin

Overview

Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries.

This book profiles the ancient universities and their distinctive organizational cultures, reveals their customs, ceremonies, and traditions, their quirks and quiddities, recounts their complicated histories, describes their architectural wonders (libraries, museums, anatomy theaters, botanical gardens) and treasures (rare manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, and objects d’art of all kinds), and introduces their famous alumni, distinguished scholars, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and famously eccentric personalities.

It is a book for scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in these ancient institutions that remain centers of learning in the contemporary world.

• Contains a collection of mini biographies, pen portraits of some of the world’s most venerable universities
• Offers twelve institutional biographies that can be used to compare universities and their complex histories
• Written in an easy and rigorous style, with accessible coverage
• Compiled by a leading figure in information science, with a wide experience of great universities and the trends with which they are associated

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081005620
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/09/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	42 MB
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About the Author

Blaise Cronin is Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University and Honorary Visiting Professor at City University, London and also Edinburgh Napier University. Previously, he was also the Professor of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Lasting Legacies 2. University of St Andrews 3. Trinity College Dublin 4. University of Edinburgh 5. University of Oxford 6. University of Salamanca 7. Leiden University 8. University of Coimbra 9. Heidelberg University 10. University of Bologna 11. University of Padua

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This fascinating book provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage and describes the art, literary and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries