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Mourning Bologna
Dietrich Lemke
A Joyless Anniversary
The venerable old Italian university town of Bologna seems in danger of losing its long-established good name. The risk to the city’s reputation, ironically enough, is due to developments in higher education, the very field in which its fame was established. In 1088, the first European university to be broadly independent of Church control was founded in Bologna, setting new standards in jurisprudential scholarship and, through its example, leading to the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2010
Category
Education, Management & Bureaucracy
Subjects
Europe, State & Government, Academia