Volume XXI/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

• An Early Oxford Riot: Oseney Abbey, 1238


• The Fifteenth-Century Accademia Pontaniana: An Analysis of its Institutional Elements


• Martinus Hortensius, Oration on the Dignity and the Usefulness of the Mathematical Sciences (1634)


• 'Redbrick's Unlovely Quadrangles': Reinterpreting the Architecture of the Civic Universities


• The Scularization of the Chaplaincy: A Brief History of the Columbia University Chaplaincy 1908-1969


• Essay Reviews


• Publications on University History since 1977: A Continuing Bibliography