Fully revised and expanded, the Third Edition of this introduction provides an invaluable guide to politics and ideas in late medieval Europe.

From the divine right of kings to the philosophy of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning the entire continent and beyond, and using contemporary voices wherever possible, the authors include substantial sections on economics, religion, and art, and how developments in these areas fed into and were influenced by the transformation of political thinking. The new edition takes the narrative beyond the confines of Western Europe with chapters on East Central Europe and the Teutonic knights, and the Portuguese expansion across the Atlantic.

Volume XV of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Volume XIII of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this annual publication such an indispensable book for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject matter. Volume XIII includes articles on town and gown relations in Dublin, nineteenth-century engineering students at Brunswick, and Cape Towners views on their university, and is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
Contributors: Lindsay Boynton, Peter Denley, John Fletcher, M. Claudia Toniolo Fascione, Domenico Maffei. R. J. W. Evans, J. Roelevink, Gerrit Walther, Robert Anderson, Dick van Lente, Richard Sheppard, Christopher A. Upton, Nancy Spatz, Simon Forde, Elizabethanne Boran, Gordon DesBrisay, Paul Wood, G. A. Tishkin, Sophie Forgan, Graeme Gooday, Roger Hitchins, Gudrun, Fielder, Klaus Erich Pollmann, Howard Phillips, John D. Fair