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Independent researcher and freelance writer and editor; Associate Lecturer in History at Birkbeck, University of London
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The Seventeenth Century, 27, 375-88, 2012
Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras (eds), Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), pp. 76-98, 2012
The Seventeenth Century, 28, 465-7, 2013
G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell and Jill Kraye (eds), Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (London: Routledge), pp. 76-98, 2010
Renaissance Studies, 2007
the Origins of the Research University is a history of the university from the Renaissance to the... more the Origins of the Research University is a history of the university from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century; it also serves as a stimulating reflection on modern academia and the nature, role and purpose of academics and their institutions. Consider some features of contemporary (British) academia: the importance of administration; the 'publish or perish' mentality; the prominence of forms, tables and lists in the close monitoring of students, academics and institutions; modular degree structures; the importance of the doctoral thesis for entrance into academic careers; RAEs and QAAs. How far can they be regarded as recent developments owing much to the specific social, cultural and political context of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? And how do they relate to enduring traditions, such as degree titles, academic titles, academic dress, ceremonies and rites? As Clark demonstrates, the modern research university, underpinned by rationality and a strong bureaucratic apparatus, is not a recent phenomenon, but rather has its origins in the Enlightenment and more particularly in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Germany (or the 'Germanies' as Clark labels them). And Clark also offers insights into how and why various traditional features of academia survived the modernizing process.
Journal of the United Reformed Church Historical Society, 7, 407-20, 2005
Renaissance Studies, 19, 406-8, 2005
The Seventeenth Century, 27, 375-88, 2012
Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras (eds), Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), pp. 76-98, 2012
The Seventeenth Century, 28, 465-7, 2013
G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell and Jill Kraye (eds), Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (London: Routledge), pp. 76-98, 2010
Renaissance Studies, 2007
the Origins of the Research University is a history of the university from the Renaissance to the... more the Origins of the Research University is a history of the university from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century; it also serves as a stimulating reflection on modern academia and the nature, role and purpose of academics and their institutions. Consider some features of contemporary (British) academia: the importance of administration; the 'publish or perish' mentality; the prominence of forms, tables and lists in the close monitoring of students, academics and institutions; modular degree structures; the importance of the doctoral thesis for entrance into academic careers; RAEs and QAAs. How far can they be regarded as recent developments owing much to the specific social, cultural and political context of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? And how do they relate to enduring traditions, such as degree titles, academic titles, academic dress, ceremonies and rites? As Clark demonstrates, the modern research university, underpinned by rationality and a strong bureaucratic apparatus, is not a recent phenomenon, but rather has its origins in the Enlightenment and more particularly in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Germany (or the 'Germanies' as Clark labels them). And Clark also offers insights into how and why various traditional features of academia survived the modernizing process.
Journal of the United Reformed Church Historical Society, 7, 407-20, 2005
Renaissance Studies, 19, 406-8, 2005