VolumeXXII/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. It offers a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

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

• Articles


• 'Consilio hominum nostrorum': A Comparative Study of Royal Responses to Crisis at the University of Paris, 1200-1231


• The Uses of Orthodoxy and Jacobean Erudition: Thomas James and the Bodleian Library


• Paratus sum sententiam mutare: The Influence of Cartesian Philosophy at Basle


• Hoffmann and Stahl. Documents and Reflections on the Dispute


• The Eighteenth Century Confronts Job


• Essay Reviews


• Academic Charisma and the Old Regime


• Celebrating the quincentenary of the University of Wittenberg (1502)?


• Oxford and Cambridge College Histories: an endangered genre?


• Reviews


• Elena Brambilla, Geneologie del sapere: Università, professioni giuridiche e nobiltà togata in Italia (XIII-XVII secolo) (Paul F. Grendler)


• Koen Goudriaan, Jaap van Moolenbroek, and Ad Tervoort (eds), Education and Learning in the Netherlands, 1400-1600. Essays in Honour of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (Jason Harris)


• Volker Remmert, Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung, Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution (Angelo De Bruycker)


• Antonio Poppi, Presenza dei Francescani Conventuali nel Collegio dei Teologi dell'Università di Padova. Appunti d'Archivio (1510-1806) (Ginevra Crosignani)


• Jan Schröder, Recht als Wissenschaft. Geschichte der juristischen Methode vom Humanismus bis zur historischen Schule (1500-1850) (Joseph S. Freedman)


• Michael Kempe, Wissenschaft, Theologie, Aufklärung. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) und die Sintfluttheorie (Monika Gisler)