The Universities Of The Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance universities were Europes intellectual leaders inhumanistic studies law medicine philosophy and science and the prototypeof todays research ... » 

Italian Renaissance universities were Europes intellectual leaders inhumanistic studies law medicine philosophy and science and the prototypeof todays research university. In the first book in any language to offer acomprehensive study of this most influential institution Paul Grendler offersa detailed and authoritative account of the origins and development of eachuniversity. Among the topics addressed are the number of professors and theirdistribution by discipline student enrollment and experiences courses ofstudy budget and salaries relations with civil authority and the impact ofsocial intellectual and religious movements. Grendler concludes with adiscussion of the internal abuses and external threats that led to the declineof these institutions and ended Italys educational leadership in theseventeenth century. «