Lund and learning : an informal history of Lund University /
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Lund University Press,
c1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Prologue in Denmark
- Chapter 1. The grove of academe. A university in Lund
- Old and new ideals of scholarship
- Students and studies
- The dissolution and reorganization of the university
- War, plague, and royal visits
- Chapter 2. The Eighteenth century. The age of freedom and the Enlightenment
- Andreas Rydelius
- The theological faculty
- The revival of legal studies
- The early study of medicine in Lund
- The faculty of philosophy
- Sven Lagerbring and Swedish history
- Scenes of the eighteenth-century university town
- Jubilee celebrations. A review of the first century
- University learning and the culture of the capital
- The change in philosophical system
- New philological scholarship
- Sciences in the eighteenth century. The first learned society in Lund
- Sturm und Drang. Echoes of the French Revolution
- Chapter 3. The nineteenth century. From Romanticism to positivism
- The external framework
- Tegnér and Lundensian humanism
- Carl Adolph Agardh and botany
- Theology and the romanitc breakthrough
- The historical school of law
- Medicine in Lund
- practitioners and romantics
- Antiquarians and philologists
- The slow progress of the natural sciences
- A polymath in the natural sciences
- Liberalism and Scandinavianism
- The first academic union building. Political debate
- New statues, new examinations
- C. G. Brunius and the dream of the Middle Ages
- New aims of linguistic research and language teaching
- Philosophical schools
- History
- idealism and empiricism
- The aesthetic disciplines
- The natural sciences
- a change of paradigm
- New directions in medicine
- Two modern linguists
- The university jubilee
- The new university building and the new library
- Young radicals, coteries, and carnivals
- The entry of the female students
- University extension
- Chapter 4. The twentieth century. From autocracy via democracy to bureaucracy
- Clever Hans and B. L.
- Axel Herrlin and the new psychology
- Lund theology
- Leading lights in the faculty of law
- Among the linguists
- The revival of classical antiquity
- History and the social sciences. The age of source criticism
- Aesthetics and psychology
- A humanistic credo
- Science and technology in the twentieth century
- Achievements in medicine
- Student life between the wars
- Political currents and echoes of war
- From the end of the war to the student revolt
- Expansion and crisis
- Epilogue : Lund and Europe. The quintessential Lund.