Volume XXIX/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Articles; Renee Raphael: Eclecticism as a Vibrant Philosophical Program: Claude Berigard and Mauro Mancini on the University of Pisa; Pietro D. Omodeo: Central European Polemics over Descartes: Johannes Placentinus and His Academic Opponents at Frankfurt on Oder (1653-1656); Meelis Friedenthal: Nominal Definition in the Seventeenth-Century University Disputations of the German Cultural Space; Marco di Giulio: Scholarship, Politics, and Jewish Identity in Italian Post-Unification Academia; Christopher Stray: Disciplinary Histories of Classics; Review Essays; Robin Darwall-Smith: Oxford College Histories: Fresh Contributions; Sheldon Rothblatt: Whose Space Is It Anyhow? Paul Temple (ed.), The Physical University, Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education; Joel T. Rosenthal: In Mary Lyon's Footsteps: The Historiography of Mount Holyoke College; Reviews; Per Landgren: Jacopo Zabarella, On Methods, i: Books I-II; ii: Books III-IV, On Regressus, ed. and trans. John P. McCaskey; Arnoud Visser: Sari Kivisto, The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities; Richard Kirwan: Maximilian Schuh, Aneignungen des Humanismus. Institutionelle und individuelle Praktiken an der Universitat Ingolstadt im 15. Jahrhundert; Asaph Ben-Tov: Elizabeth Harding, Der Gelehrte im Haus: Ehe, Familie und Haushalt in der Standeskultur der fruhneuzeitlichen Universitat Helmstedt; W. Bruce Leslie: Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II; Alexander Statman: Noel Golvers. Libraries of Western Learning for China. Circulation of Western Books between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (ca.1650-1750), ii: Formation of Jesuit Libraries.; Sheldon Rothblatt: Tamson Pietsch, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850-1939