Historical Sketches, Volume 3

John Henry Newman (1872). 30 notes, from the Newman Reader.

• Dedication

The Rise and Progress of Universities

• Advertisement
• Chapter 1. Introductory
• Chapter 2. What is a University?
• Chapter 3. Site of a University
• Chapter 4. University Life: Athens
• Chapter 5. Free Trade in Knowledge: The Sophists
• Chapter 6. Discipline and Influence
• Chapter 7. Athenian Schools: Influence
• Chapter 8. Macedonian and Roman Schools: Discipline
• Chapter 9. Downfall and Refuge of Ancient Civilization: The Lombards
• Chapter 10. The Tradition of Civilization: The Isles of the North
• Chapter 11. A Characteristic of the Popes: St. Gregory the Great
• Chapter 12. Moral of that Characteristic of the Popes: Pius the Ninth
• Chapter 13. Schools of Charlemagne: Paris
• Chapter 14. Supply and Demand: The Schoolmen
• Chapter 15. Professors and Tutors
• Chapter 16. The Strength and Weakness of Universities: Abelard
• Chapter 17. The Ancient University of Dublin
• Chapter 18. Colleges the Corrective of Universities: Oxford
• Chapter 19. Abuses of the Colleges: Oxford
• Chapter 20. Universities and Seminaries: L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes
• § 1. § 1
• § 2. § 2
• III. Medieval Oxford

Convocation of Canterbury

• Chapter 1. Its Constitution and Rights
• Chapter 2. Its Lower House in relation to its Upper
• Chapter 3. Views of the Lower House in opposing the Upper
• Chapter 4. Its Relation to the Ecclesiastical Establishment
• Chapter 5. Relation of Convocation to the Crown