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Today's Medieval University (Paperback, New edition)
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Today's Medieval University (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Past Imperfect
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Loot Price R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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Just how medieval is the modern university? Rarely do even scholars
of medievalism employ its methods and approaches to thinking about
institutions. Universities arose out of concerns of the church and
the state in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Western
Europe. From the beginning, they were fixtures, and from the
beginning, they needed extensive renovation. And yet, universities
have remained monolithic and static entities, renovating themselves
just enough - but never more than enough - to avoid massive
interventions by the state or the church or other elements in the
system. Like parliamentary democracies, they function just well
enough that while feelings of despair are frequent, and
anticipation of imminent collapse constant, they continue. In the
modern era, as universities face a new set of challenges, this book
asks if there is not some value in pondering the medieval
university, the origin stories for the modern university, and the
continuities that exist as much as do the fractures. Universities
offer a fascinating lens on what society considers important. Not
only should we consider the role of the university in every
society, we should consider how that role has instantiated itself
over many generations, and even over nearly one millennium. The
extent to which the modern university is medieval offers, the
author suggests, both cause for hope and cause for concern.
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