Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning

Anja-Silvia Goeing is Professor at the University of Zurich and Associate Professor of History at Harvard. She authored Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich (Brill, 2017) and co-edited Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton UP, 2020). Glyn Parry is Professor at the University of Roehampton, London. He published The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale UP, 2012) and (with Dr Cathryn Enis) Shakespeare Before Shakespeare: Stratford, Warwickshire and the Elizabethan State (Oxford UP, 2020). Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the Republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe (2019), co-edited with Giulia Giannini.

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education contains twenty essays by experts on early modern academic networks. Using a variety of approaches to universities, schools, and academies throughout Europe and in Central America, the book suggests pathways for future research.