scholarly journals Un balance historiográfico de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares = A Historiographical Overview of the University of Alcalá de Henares

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Omar Gómez-Cornejo Aguado

Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es conocer el panorama historiográfico de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares a través del estudio de las monografías que existen al respecto. Desde el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad se han publicado numerosas obras y la mayoría de ellas se han tenido en cuenta en este trabajo. No obstante, la atención se ha focalizado en el estudio de los principales temas que han sido abordados a lo largo del tiempo. Asimismo, se pretende detectar y desarrollar nuevos enfoques y perspectivas, por tanto, se reflexiona también sobre aspectos potenciales en la investigación sobre esta Universidad.Palabras clave: Alcalá de Henares, historia de las universidades, historiografía, bibliografía, monografías.Abstract: The aim of this paper is to know the historiographical overview of the University of Alcalá de Henares through the study of the monographs which exist about it. From the sixteenth century to nowadays numerous works have been published and the majority of them have been taken into account in this article. However, the attention has been focused on the study of the main themes which have been analysed during this time. Likewise, it is tried to detect and develop new approaches and perspectives, so potential aspects in the research of this University are also considered.Keywords: Alcalá de Henares, history of universities, historiography, bibliography, monographs.

Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Alabrús Iglesias

Resum: En aquest article es fa un estat de la qüestió sobre la història de la Universitats amb un estudi comparatiu de les Universitats de la Corona d’Aragó i, en particular, de les catalanes, amb les Universitats castellanes. S’examina la problemàtica institucional amb les tensions entre l’Església, la Monarquia i els Municipis pel control universitari, la població estudiantil, l’oferta cultural, en les diverses Facultats, l’estructura econòmica, la càrrega docent i la presumpta «revolució educativa» des de la segona meitat de segle xvi. S’analitza, d’altra banda, el període de la decadència final de les Universitats catalanes i la significació de Cervera amb el debat entre jesuïtes i dominics al voltant de la Universitat creada per Felip V i el paper de centres culturals alternatius com l’Acadèmia de Sant Tomàs o l’Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. Paraules clau: Història de les Universitats, problemàtica institucional, càrrega docent, revolució educativa segle xvi, Cervera al segle XVIII Abstract: This article presents a state of the art on the history of Universities with a comparative study of the Universities of the Crown of Aragon and particularly of the Universities of the Crown of Aragon.The institutional problem is examined with the tensions between the Church, the Monarchy and the Municipalities by the university control, the student population, the cultural supply, in the diverse Faculties, the economic structure, the teaching load and the alleged «revolution educational» of the second half of the 16th century. It also analyses the period of the final decay of the Catalan Universities and the significance of Cervera with the debate between Jesuits and Dominicans around the University, create by Philip V, and the role of alternative cultural centres such as the one. Academia de Sant Tomàs or the Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona. Keywords: History of universities, institutional problems, teaching load, educational revolution sixteenth century, Cervera in the 18th century


Traditio ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron P. Gilmore

During the last decade the works of Professor Guido Kisch have made an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the legal thought of the sixteenth century, particularly to the school represented by the University of Basel. His articles and monographs have dealt with the biographical and literary history of significant scholars as well as with the rival schools of interpretation represented by ‘mos italicus' and ‘mos gallicus.' Building on these earlier studies, Professor Kisch has now produced a major work of more comprehensive scope, which goes beyond biographical and methodological questions to the analysis of significant change in substantive legal doctrines. Convinced that the age of humanism and the reception of Roman law saw the formation of some of the most important modern legal concepts, he centers his research on the evolution of the theory of equity with due attention, on the one hand, to the relationship between sixteenth-century innovation and the historic western tradition and, on the other, to the interaction between the academic profession and the practicing lawyers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer

Resumen:  El presente trabajo trata sobre el desarrollo de la disciplina de la historia de las Universidades en España por épocas y temas, y pretende reflejar cómo se han abordado los aspectos intelectuales, científicos, estudiantiles y políticos que rodean a la institución universitaria. Se revisa la producción desde su inicios desde las diferentes áreas académicas, deteniéndonos en las personalidades singulares que impulsaron esta especialización, la creación de revistas ligadas a este ámbito y la celebración de congresos, señalando los aspectos más relevantes de esta aportación de la historiografía española al conjunto de la historia de las Universidades europeas.Abstract: The present work deals with the development of the study of the history of universities in Spain in terms of periods and themes, and tries to reflect how the intellectual, scientific, student and political aspects that surround the university institution have been approached. I revise the contributions of the different academic areas from their very beginning, focusing on the unique personalities who promoted this specialization, the creation of journals linked to this area and the celebration of congresses, pointing out the most relevant aspects of this contribution of Spanish historiography to the history of European Universities.Palabras clave: España, historia de las universidades, historiografía, educación.Keywords: Spain, history of universities, historiography, education. 


This book contains the customary mix of learned chapters and book review chapters which cover a variety of aspects of the history of higher education, focusing in this case on Corpus Christi College in Oxford and Tudor England. Chapters look at topics such as Church, State, and corpus; patronage, performativity, and ideas at Corpus Christi; the English humanist tradition; musical participation in early Tudor education; life in a sixteenth-century college; education during the reign of Henry VIII; Tudor Oxford; and English antiquarianism.


Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-310
Author(s):  
Svetlana Luchitskaya

It is ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity that lends originality to the Istrian peninsula. Istria is known to be one of the most interesting multicultural European regions where states, languages, and religions <?page nr="308"?>meet. Here is another contribution to the study of this fascinating part of Europe. Though the history of Istria has been researched in detail beginning with the works of the eminent Istrian historian Camillo de Franceschi, who emphasized the Italian nature of the Istrian Peninsula, there are still a few works of Croatian or Slovenian historians written in “understandable” languages. One of them is precisely the book ‘Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier written in English by the Croatian historian Robert Kurelič who teaches at the University of Pula. The author’s merit consists in making the medieval history of Istria as well as its rich multi-language historiography accessible to the widest range of researchers. What is equally important is that the work of Kurelić is surely a thorough academic investigation free of any political and ideological influence meaning?.


2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-294
Author(s):  
Thomas Conley

Abstract: This short paper will sketch the twilight years of Greek rhetorics, roughly from 1500 until just after the Greek War of Independence. This is an area that, like much else in neo-Greek intellectual history, has been sadly ignored in “Western” scholarship. Greek scholars played an important part in the reception of the works of Hermogenes, Longinus, and pseudo-Demetrius in the mid- and late-sixteenth century. But other Greek teachers and scholars at the College of St. Athanasius in Rome, at the University of Padua, at the Flanginian Academy in Venice, and at schools in Bucharest, Jannina, and Constantinople itself continued to add to those traditions with numerous school texts, homiletic handbooks, and some interesting philosophical treatments of rhetoric. Their names (Korydaleus, Skoufos, Mavrokordates, Damodos, and many others) are unknown to most students of the history of rhetoric—a situation this paper will try in its small way to change.


1957 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Schlauch

Though well known to specialists in the history of early Polish literature, the figure of Andreas (Andrzej) Galka of Dobczyn, an ardent admirer of John Wycliff, is probably not familiar to English students of Middle English. This fifteenth-century professor at the University of Cracow is notable for several reasons. Not only is his eulogy of Wycliff a precious monument of medieval Polish, but his Latin letters also have great interest, revealing as they do a colourful and pugnacious individual whose meteoric career is linked with some profound social changes occurring in his age and country. Both his literary activity and his personal adventures relate him to the movement for Church reform then sweeping over central and eastern Europe, as a precursor of the more decisive movement which was to occur in the early sixteenth century.


2009 ◽  

The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume recounts the birth of botanical sciences in Florence and the history of the museum collections from sixteenth century to today. Then follows the second part which describes the historical and modern Herbaria, for each of which the main events that went to their formation, the importance of the plants they contain and biographical information on those who built the collections are described. The third section expounds the other collections in the Botanical Section of the Museum, among which of particular interest are the wax models of plants and fruits, manufactured by the old Grand-ducal Ceroplastics Laboratory, the wood collection, plaster of Paris mushrooms and the eighteenth century still life paintings of fruits and vegetables by Bartolomeo Bimbi. Finally, the last part illustrates the importance that herbaria play today in modern scientific research, drawing attention to the fact that they are an archive that holds taxonomical, chorological and ecological information in function of the plants they contain, as well as historical-biographical information on the scholars who, through their efforts, built up the collections.


Author(s):  
Dennis Harding

Popular perception polarizes opinions, and archaeology is no exception. Instead of complexities and paradoxes, we instinctively prefer simplification and certainties, even if this distorts the truth, except, of course, where academic compromise affords the comfort zone of indecision. Accordingly, Stukeley and the early antiquarians are regarded as eccentrics, concerned only with druids and ancient Britons painted with woad, whilst General Pitt-Rivers has been portrayed as the pioneer of modern, scientific archaeology in an era of dilettante barrow diggers. In Scotland, Daniel Wilson has been acclaimed for his first use in English of the term ‘prehistoric’, yet as far as hillforts were concerned he was scathingly dismissive of their significance. David Christison is widely cited as the excavator whose work at Dunadd on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland so appalled Lord Abercromby that he misguidedly transferred his bequest, originally in favour of the Society, to the University of Edinburgh for the foundation of the Abercromby Chair of Prehistoric Archaeology. Yet Christison's Early Fortifications in Scotland of 1898 was an authoritative survey of hillforts that was acknowledged as a model in Hadrian Allcroft's Earthwork of England (1908). Every generation likes to imagine that it has advanced the frontiers of knowledge to a degree that allows it to look upon earlier achievements with the benefit of better informed if slightly self-satisfied hindsight, but progress is seldom without its setbacks and sidetracks. Each generation hopefully builds upon the advances of its predecessors, and the questions posed by pioneers will necessarily appear facile to later researchers. Early antiquarian investigations had to address fundamental issues of basic site identification and dating, and it is salutary to recall that even Pitt-Rivers’ initial investigation of Sussex hillforts (Lane–Fox 1869) was primarily designed to advance the case for their being pre-Roman. We might also note that he was in no doubt that their function was as defensive sites, against one alternative view, current even then, that they were used for ritual purposes. Serious study of hillforts, notwithstanding the dilettantish curiosity evinced by landed gentry or leisured clerics, began effectively with the topographic descriptions and surveys of sixteenth-century antiquaries like William Camden, whose Britannia was published in 1586. This monumental work was revised and re-issued in several editions over a period of two hundred years, and was notably extended in Gough's edition of 1789.


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