Historical Nodes of Inquiry
University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts

  Ned Fielden, Librarian
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California, USA
fielden@sfsu.edu
http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/
January, 2007

 

Select Bibliography

Burke, Redmond Ambrose. Culture and Communication through the Ages. Chicago: De Paul University Library, 1953.


Chartier, Roger. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.


Clark, John Willis. The Care of Books. Cambridge: University Press, 1909.


Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.


Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.


Hall, A. Rupert, and Isaac Newton. Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.


Hartley, Harold. The Royal Society, Its Origins and Founders. London: Royal Society, 1960.


Houston, R. A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education, 1500-1800.London: Longman, 1988.


Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.


Kittelson, James M., and Pamela J. Transue. Rebirth, Reform, and Resilience: Universities in Transition, 1300-1700. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.


Kronick, David A. "The Commerce of Letters: Networks And "Invisible Colleges" in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe." Library Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2001): 28-43.


Pollard, G. "The Pecia System in the Medieval Universities." In Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries:Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, edited by N. R. Ker, 145-61. London: Scolar Press, 1978.


Rashdall, Hastings, F. M. Powicke, and A. B. Emden. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.


Rudy, Willis. The Universities of Europe, 1100-1914: A History. Rutherford [N.J.]:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.


Schmitt, Charles B. History of Universities.  Avebury, England: Avebury Pub. Co., 1981.


Thompson, James Westfall. The Medieval Library. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939.


Van Doren, Charles Lincoln. A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1991