The Rise of Universities by Charles Homer Haskins

Universities have been an essential part of education for nearly 1,000 years.

Yet, why did universities develop?

And how have they changed through the course of their history?

Charles Homer Haskins’s fascinating work The Rise of the Universities reveals what life and learning was like in these early institutions.

He uncovers how medieval professors taught and what medieval students learnt all those centuries ago.

“brief popular expositions of some striking phases of university life in Medieval Europe.” The Philosophical Review

This book is essential reading for all who have passed through university and for those who wonder why they exist at all.

Charles Homer Haskins was a history professor at Harvard University. He was an American historian of the Middle Ages, and advisor to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. He is widely recognized as the first academic medieval historian in the United States. The Rise of the Universities was first published in 1923 and Haskins passed away in 1937.