History of Universities

This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXI / 2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology

- Articles
- School Ties: The Evidence of Alumni Friendships in Later Medieval England
- 'A Claim on Their Gratitude': Portrait Panels in the New Library of the Sorbonne
- A 1585 Oxford Ceremonial Student Oration: Text and Translation
- Amicus GalilÃ-us sed Magis Amica Veritas: The true story of 'Galileo's Philoponus'
- Traces of an Academic Career in Renaissance Brandenburg: The Scottish Mathematician and Physician John Craig at Frankfurt on Oder
- The Scientific Revolution in Scotland revisited: the new sciences in Edinburgh
- Constructing Hidden Narratives: The History of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), at the University of Edinburgh, 1969-2013
- Reviews
- Gaines Post. The Papacy and the Rise of Universities
- Paul W. Knoll, 'A Pearl of Powerful Learning': The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century
- Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton and Charles Burnett, editors, The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
- Nick Haynes, Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow; Nick Haynes and Clive B. Fenton, Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Edinburgh