This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 1, 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 Professor of History at California Institute of Technology.

• Articles


• Supplications to the Pope from the University of Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century


• Demographic Representation and the Fifteenth-Century Crisis of the University of Paris


• Studies on the Iconography of Universities in the Holy Roman Empire-Images on Seals and Maces


• Strenæ Natalitiæ: Ambivalence and Equivocation in Oxford in 1688


• Maintain the old institutions in their old quiet way': Beresford Hope and the Religious and Political Dimensions of University Reform in Victorian Britain


• 'University': The History of the Search for a Definition in England


• Review Essays


• Richard Yeo, Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science; Renée Raphael, Reading Galileo. Scribal technologies and the two new sciences


• James Axtell, Wisdom's Workshop