This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Sp

"This book contains twenty essays by expert scholars of higher learning in the early modern period. Together they discuss topics that historians of universities

A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religi

The author casts new light not only on the short lived educational revolution of the sixteenth century but on education in other societies, both past and presen

Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University focuses on the teaching and cultural activities of the Akademia Zamojska, one of the most renowned universiti