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. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

- 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 Galilæus 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