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History of Universities is an annual publication devoted to the study of every aspect of university history from the Middle Ages to 1945. Each volume consists of a number of articles and book reviews written by scholars from many different countries. Volume VI chiefly comprises articles on the intellectual, social, and professional role of the late-medieval universities, especially Oxford and Paris. The volume is prefaced by an obituary notice dedicated to Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute, the internationally renowned Renaissance scholar and founding-editor of the journal, who died in April 1986. The new editor is Laurence Brockliss of Magdalen College, Oxford, a specialist in French higher education in the early-modern period. He is assisted by an editorial board drawn from the leading authorities on the history of the university in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States. Scholars and students of educational, social, cultural, and intellectual history, particularly the m