A Cultural History of Higher Learning: Volumes 1-6: The Cultural Histories Series Ning de Coninck-Smith Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Higher Learning

Volumes 1-6

A Cultural History of Higher Learning

Volumes 1-6

Description

How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.

Exploring higher learning rather than universities, the authors examine the full range of the effects of advanced education on their societies. Readers will discover ancient academies, monasteries, temples to professional and technical schools as well as universities. Together the volumes describe the remarkable drama of societies trying to organize knowledge for humanity, with many conflicts, reversals, and triumphs along the way.

Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6.

The 6 volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE); 2. Medieval Age (500-1400); 3. Renaissance (1400-1600); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1600-1760); 5. Age of Industry (1760-1900); 6. Modern Age (1900-present)

Themes (and chapter titles) are: cultures; geographies; authorities; teaching; disciplines; communities; materialities; contestations and epitome.

The total extent of the pack is approximately 1712 pages. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.

The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Higher Learning is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library, updated twice a year and available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access. See www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com for further information or to access content.

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in Antiquity
Edited by Jan Stenger, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Jan Stenger
1. Cultures, Liba Taub
2. Geographies, Matthias Haake
3. Authorities, Francesca Schironi
4. Teaching, Fotini Hadjittofi and Ana Vanessa Gonçalves Fernandes
5. Disciplines, Maren Niehoff
6. Communities, Han Baltussen
7. Materialities, Matthew Nicholls
8. Contestations, Lillian I. Larsen
9. Epitome, Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Medieval Age
Edited by Clare Monagle, Macquarie University, Australia

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Clare Monagle
1. Cultures, Yoichi Isahaya
2. Geographies, Aydogan Kars
3. Authorities, Manu V. Devadevan
4. Teaching, Clare Monagle
5. Disciplines, Micol Long
6. Communities, Nina Caputo
7. Materialities, Clare Monagle
8. Contestations, Tineke D'Haeseleer
9. Epitome, Sita Steckel

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Renaissance
Edited by Lyse Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Lyse Roy
1. Cultures, Antoine Destemberg
2. Geographies, Geneviève Dumas
3. Authorities, Abdurrahman Atçil
4. Teaching, Simona Negruzzo
5. Disciplines, Jean-Luc Cam
6. Communities, Maria Teresa Guerrini
7. Materialities, Richard Kirwan
8. Contestations, Lyse Roy
9. Epitome, Enrique González González

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Esther Mijers, University of Edinburgh, UK

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Esther Mijers
1. Cultures, Dirk van Miert
2. Geographies, Stefano Gulizia
3. Authorities, Marianne Taatz-Jacobi
4. Teaching, Giovanni Gellera
5. Disciplines, Floris Verhaart
6. Communities, Richard Kirwan
7. Materialities, Clarisse Godard Demarest and James Legard
8. Contestations, Richard Oosterhoff
9. Epitome, Julia Bray

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry
Edited by Heather Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK and Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology, Australia

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Heather Ellis and Tamson Pietsch
1. Cultures, Pieter Dhondt
2. Geographies, Heike Jöns
3. Authorities, H.S. Jones
4. Teaching, Tom O'Donoghue
5. Disciplines, Paul Turnbull
6. Communities, Tomás Irish
7. Materialities, Sarah Longair
8. Contestations, Samuel Rutherford
9. Epitome, Charlotte A. Lerg

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Modern Age
Edited by Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, Australia and Chris Newfield, UC Santa Barbara, USA

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Hannah Forsyth and Chris Newfield
1. Cultures, Hannah Forsyth
2. Geographies, Hannah Forsyth
3. Authorities, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
4. Teaching, Peter Goodyear, Dewa Wardak and Lucila Carvalho
5. Disciplines, Johan Östling
6. Communities, Debaditya Bhattacharya
7. Materialities, Cameron Logan and Hannah Lewi
8. Contestations, Pedro Fiori Arantes and Salvador Schavelzon
9. Epitome, Robert Morrell, Leslie Bank and Manya Mooya

Product details

Published	Sep 17 2025
Format	Pack - Printer Assembled
Edition	1st
ISBN	9781350232204
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	150 bw illus
Dimensions	Not specified
Series	The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing