Volume XXVIII/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Mordechai Feingold is a Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.

• Articles


• Machiavelli at University, and the Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio


• Kepler's Disputation on Copernicus' Opinions


• The Establishment of a First-Class University Library': The Beginnings of the University of London Library


• The Domestic Laws of Oxford and Cambridge: External Interference and Internal Interpretation


• Review Essays


• Joseph Scaliger's Letters: Collaborator, Teacher, Impresario


• Late, but not too Late. Eugenio Garin's History of Italian Philosophy


• Reviews


• Spencer E. Young (ed.), Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities


• Karine Crousaz, L'Académie de Lausanne entre humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)


• W. Bruce Leslie, Andrew Jewett, Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War


• Bibliography