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172 Reviews ingredient of self-preservation, which the whole political nation sought in 1640. Glyn Party Department of History Victoria Univeristy of Wellington Gabriel, Astrick L., The Paris studium: Robert of Sorbonne and his legacy: interuniversity exchange between the German, Cracow and Louvain universities and that of Paris in the late medieval and humanistic period. Selected studies (Texts and studies in the history of medieval education, No. XIX), Notre D a m e and Frankfurt am Main, United States subcomission for the history of universities and verlag Joseph Knecht, 1992; cloth; pp. 541; 33 plates; R.R.P. US$79.00. This handsomely produced volume is conceived as a homage to the author himself, reprinting, with updated information and bibliography, articles mainly published in the seventies and eighties. Thefirstone, however, on Robert de Sorbonne, saw the light of day in 1953. All the articles have been updated in one way or the other, in all cases bibliographical additions being included. Sometimes there is additional text. Recent discoveries by other scholars m a y have been inserted, new information added or illustrations replaced or even, in one case, reproduced for thefirsttime. Since the articles are all of a high quality, relate to the same basic area of study, the early life and influence of the university of Paris, and have been hitherto scattered through several journals, it was an excellent idea to gather them together in the one volume. The volume has all the trappings of a hommage volume. It is printed on afinequality glossy paper, is well bound and provided with an attractive dust cover, and offers intotalthirty-three plates, all black and white except for No. X X X which reproduces in colour the introductory page of the records of the Rectoratus of Henricus Stromer. The reader is well served by a full bibliography of works cited in the course of the nine articles or 'chapters' as weU as a section listing manuscripts and archival material, incunabula, and printed rare books mentioned in the articles. Access to information in the pages of the book is facilitated by a separate name and subject index. James J. John traces in his preface the cursus honorum of Gabriel, following his peripatetic path from Hungary to Paris to Canada to,finally,the university of Notre D a m e in Indiana, where Gabriel has completed the best part of bis Reviews 173 influential and extensive work on medieval education. Following the preface, the reader finds a Tabula gratulatoria and a List ofpublications of Astrik L Gabriel, in chronological order from 1934 to 1992. It is worth noting that a previous collection of Gabriel's articles appeared in 1969 under thetideGarlandia: studies in the history of the mediaeval university. In every way this earliertitlemay be considered a companion volume to the present one: same publication house, similar types of articles. The titles of the 'chapters' are, in each case, closely descriptive of the content: T. The spiritual portrait of Robert of Sorbonne'; 'U. "Via antiqua" and "via moderna" and the migration of Paris students and masters to the German universities in the fifteenth century'; TIL The house of poor German students at the medieval univeristy of Paris'; 'IV. Intellectual contacts between the university of Louvain and Paris during the fifteenth century'; 'V. Scholarly bonds of the university of Cracow with Paris schools in the late medieval period'; 'VI. German receptors, "reformators", and proctors at the university of Paris, (1495-1525)'; 'VII. Georgius Wolff (t 1499). Printer. Officer of the English-German nation at the university of Paris. His social, professional and academic connections'; 'VIII. The academic career of Gervasius Wain from Memmingen (ca. 1490-1554), rector of the university of Paris, envoy of Francois Ier to the German princes'; and 'IX. Franciscus Ossmanus from Alkmaar, proctor, receptor, (treasurer) and 'reformator' of the natio Alemanniae at Paris studium (15151524 )'. In the Table of Contents at the beginning of the book there is a more detaUed breakdown into subsections, so that the reader may more easUy locate at a glance the sort of information sought. Gabriel's style seems sometimes a litde too rhetorical, even fustian, especially in the article of Robert of Sorbonne. Sentences such...

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