History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This volume offers a history of the teaching of ethics in early modern Europe.

Articles
Preface, Matthias Roick
From University to Court: Academic Moral Philosophy and Noble Virtues, María Díez Yáñez
Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592-1667) in Prague: Jesuit Teaching on Ethics between Philosophy and Theology, Christoph Haar
Ethics and Disciplines at Helmstedt: Aristotelian Debates in the Twilight of the Career of Nicolaus Andreae Granius (1607-1617), Stefano Gulizia
The Ethica Section in Wolfenbüttel and the Role of 'Academic' Writings in Early Modern Ethics, Matthias Roick
Shifting from Aristotelianism to Modern Theories: Lessons on Ethics and State Power by Johann Weiss, Professor of Ethics and Politics at Giessen, Gábor Förköli
Virtutes docuit sedulitate bona: Johann Barthold Niemeier and the Teaching of Ethics in Late Seventeenth-Century Helmstedt, Benjamin Wallura
Forming a Moral Conscience at School: Aristotle, Melanchthon and Franz Tidike's (1564-1617) Isagoge Ethica, Danilo Facca
Minor Virtues? The Nicomachean Ethics and the Teaching of Rhetoric at the Akademia Zamojska, Valentina Lepri
The Emblems of the Altdorf Academy: Emblematic Pedagogy and Nuremberg Civic Culture, Mara R. Wade
Reviews
Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.-16. Jahrhundert, eds Jan-Hendryk de Boer, Marian Füssel und Maximilian Schuh, Joseph S. Freedman
Paul F. Grendler, The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773, Cristiano Casalini
Mary Clapinson, A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, Revised Edition, Robin Darwall-Smith
Enrique González González, with the collaboration of Víctor Gutiérrez Rodríguez, El Poder de las Letras. Por una historia social de las universidades de la América hispana en el periodo colonial, Luís Miguel Carolino
Ethan Schrum, The Instrumental University, Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II, Sheldon Rothblatt
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines, Christopher Stray
Stephen Whitfield, Learning on the Left, Political Profiles of Brandeis University, Sheldon Rothblatt