Title & Author:

The University and the city : from medieval origins to the present / edited by Thomas Bender.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Description:

x, 316 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Medieval origins: Universities and cities in medieval Italy / J.K. Hyde -- Parisius-paradisus: the city, its schools, and the origins of the University of Paris / Stephen C. Ferruolo -- pt. 2. Early modern revitalization: Renaissance Florence: Who needs a university? / Gene Brucker -- Civic Humanism and scientific scholarship at Leiden / Anthony Grafton -- The Geneva Academy in the eighteenth century: a Calvinist seminary or a civic university? / Michael Heyd -- Commerce and culture: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish Enlightenment / Nicholas Phillipson -- pt. 3. The metropolitan university: London: a metropolitan university? / Sheldon Rothblatt -- Preparing for public life: the collegiate students at New York University, 1832-1881 / Louise L. Stevenson -- pt. 4. The modern university and the modern city: "To live for science": ideals and realities at the University of Berlin / Charles E. McClelland -- Science as vocation in Burckhardt's Basel / Carl E. Schorske -- The university, the city, and the world: Chicago and the University of Chicago / Edward Shils -- Urban flights: the Institute of Social Research between Frankfurt and New York / Martin Jay -- Two NYUs and "the obligation of universities to the social order" in the Great Depression / David A. Hollinger -- Facing three ways: city and university in New York since World War II / Nathan Glazer.

Summary:

Essays presented at a conference on the occasion of the centennial of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University in 1986-1987. This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel perspective on the history of both universities and cities. The theme is pursued in studies of Bologna, Paris, Florence, Leiden, Geneva, Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Chicago, and New York by several distinguished scholars, including Gene Brucker, Carl Schorske, Edward Shils, Martin Jay, and Nathan Glazer.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195052730 (alk. paper)
9780195052732 (alk. paper)
0195067754
9780195067750

Subject:

Urban universities and colleges History Congresses.
City and town life History Congresses.
Education, Medieval Congresses.
Vie urbaine Histoire Congrès.
Universités urbaines Histoire Congrès.
City and town life
Education, Medieval
Urban universities and colleges
Universiteiten.
Steden.
Universities, history

Form/genre:

Congress
Congresses.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Bender, Thomas, editor.
New York University. Graduate School of Arts and Science.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 50071
Call No.: ID:89-B9033
Status: Available