Wisdom's Workshop
An essential history of the modern research university
When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom''s special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom''s Wor...
An essential history of the modern research university
When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom''s special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom''s Wor...
