How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 54 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries. Exploring higher learning rather than universities, the variety of institutional settings, organisational structures and relationships to the societies in which they belong are examined. A broader and more complex institutional approach is revealed, including ancient academies, monasteries, temples and in contemporary history, professional and technical schools. 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 1,824 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, and subsequently become a part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
