Volume XXIV of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, 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.

• Articles


• The Myth of Parisian Scholars' Opposition to the System of Papal Provision (1378-1418)


• Studies on the Italian Universities of the Renaissance: an Unpublished Work of Paul Oskar Kristeller


• Humanism and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Cambridge: Bodley MS 616


• Talking Science at the University of Padua in the Age of Antonio Vallisneri


• The Quest for Classical Antiquity at Eighteenth Century Goettingen


• Crisis and Survival on the Peripheries: Jesuit Culture, Continuity, and Change at Opposite Ends of Continental Europe, 1762-1814


• Mathematics teaching, teachers and students at St Andrews University, 1765-1858


• The Cambridge Ritualists, 1876-1924: A Study of Commensurability in the History of Scholarship


• Reviews


• R. M. Ball, Thomas Gascoigne, Libraries and Scholarship (William J. Courtenay)


• Frederic Attal, Jean Garrigues, Thierry Kouame, and Jean-Pierre Vittu (eds), Les universities en Europe, du XIIIe siecle a nos jours. Espaces, modeles et fonctions. (William Clark)


• Antonio Vallisneri, Epistolario, ed. Dario Generali (Brendan Dooley)


• Hanspeter Marti and Manfred Komorowski (eds), Die Universitaet Koenigsberg in der Fruehen Neuzeit (Marco Sgarbi)


• H. S. Jones, Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (Robin Darwall-Smith)


• Sheldon Rothblatt, Education's Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800-2006 (Robert Anderson)


• Bibliographical Essay


• Two Phases in the Historiography of the Royal University of Mexico (1930-2007)