Studium The University, Rebuilt Again

Library

Reading that helps the game turn back into history.

Start with the broad overviews, then jump into the era-specific drawers when you want the shorter way into a particular shock.

A stylised poster of the research university era.

Studium Library

The reading list is meant to stay useful rather than exhaustive. Start with the broad overviews, then use the era drawers across the site for the faster path into specific shocks.

Broad overviews

  • Walter Rüegg and Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (eds.), A History of the University in Europe
    The big standard multi-volume reference for the long European story.
  • Hastings Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages
    Old but still important for the medieval institutional story.

Modern university and its critics

  • Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
    Essential for understanding the postwar multiversity.
  • Bill Readings, The University in Ruins
    Sharp on the late-modern crisis of the university.
  • Stefan Collini, What Are Universities For?
    A clear defence of university value against narrow instrumentalism.
  • Julie A. Reuben, The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
    Useful on the nineteenth-century and American transformation.
  • John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
    A classic statement of one older vision of the university.

How to read this site

Version 1 is openly Europe-first because the medieval-to-modern university line is easiest to track there. That keeps the first build coherent without pretending other scholarly traditions were unimportant or absent.

Era links