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Contents:
1 Macerata 1540-1541
2 Salerno 1592
3 Messina 1596
4 Parma 1601
5 Incomplete Universities
6 Paper Universities
7 Conclusion
Chapter 5: The University in Action
1 Organization of Instruction
2 Latin
3 Disputations
4 Civil Authority and Student Power
5 Professors
6 Student Living
7 Residence Colleges
8 The Doctorate
9 The Cost of Degrees
10 Alternate Paths to the Doctorate
11 Doctorates from Counts Palatine
12 The Counter Reformation
Part II: Teaching and Research
Chapter 6: The Studia Humanitatis
1 Grammar and Rhetoric in the Fourteenth-Century University
2 Humanists Avoid the University, 1370-1425
3 Humanists Join the University, 1425-1450
4 Humanistic Studies Flourish, 1450-1520
5 Court and Classroom: Changing Employment for Humanists
6 Humanistic Studies at Other Universities7 The Sixteenth Century
8 Curricular Texts
9 Teaching and Research
10 Humanists in the University: A Summation
Chapter 7: Logic
1 Logic at Padua
2 Logic at Other Universities
3 Teaching and Research
4 Demonstrative Regress
5 Conclusion
Chapter 8: Natural Philosophy
1 Aristotelian Curricular Texts
2 Greek Texts and Cemeteries
3 Inanimate World, Scientific Method, and the Soul
4 The Debate on the Immortality of the Intellective Soul
5 The Immortality of the Soul after Pomponazzi
6 Platonic Philosophy in the Universities
7 Continuity and Decline of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
Chapter 9: The Medical Curriculum
1 Medieval Medical Knowledge
2 The Medical Curriculum in 1400
3 Medical Humanism
4 The Anatomical Renaissance
5 Bodies for Dissection
6 University Anatomy after Vesalius
7 Clinical Medicine
8 Medical Botany
9 Conclusion
Chapter 10: Theology, Metaphysics, and Scripture
1 From Medicant Order Studia to Faculties of Theology
2 Faculties of Theology
3 Doctorates of Theology
4 Theology, Metaphysics, and Scripture at the University of Padua
5 Universities Teaching Theology Continuously
6 Universities Reluctant to Teach Theology
7 Erasmus' Doctorate of Theology
8 Teaching Texts
9 The Reputation of Theology
10 Italian Convent and University Theology 1400-1600
Chapter 11: Moral Philosophy
1 Moral Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages
2 Humanistic Moral Philosophy at the University of Florence
3 Moral Philosophy in Other Universities
4 Teaching Moral Philosophy
Chapter 12: Mathematics
1 Statutory Texts
2 The Renaissance of Mathematics
3 Professors of Astrology, Astronomy and Mathematics
4 Luca Pacioli
5 The Progress of Mathematics
Chapter 13: Law
1 Mos Italicus
2 Teaching Texts
3 Humanistic Jurisprudence
4 The Decline of Canon Law
5 Padua and Bologna
6 Pavia and Rome
7 Siena and the Sozzini
8 Florence and Pisa
9 The Other Universities
10 Conclusion
Part III: Recessional
Chapter 14: Decline
1 Concern for the Universities
2 Competition from Religious Order Schools: The Jesuit School at Padua
3 Competition from Religious Order Schools: Schools for Nobles
4 Degrees from Local Colleges of Law and Medicine
5 Private Teaching and Other Pedagogical Abuses
6 Private Anatomy Teaching at Padua
7 The Shrinking Academic Calendar
8 Financial Problems
9 Faculty Provincialism
10 Student Violence
11 Positive Developments
12 A Weakened Institution
Chapter 15: Conclusion
Appendix: Faculty Size and Student Enrollments
Bibliography