Only passing ClassCon in this one, but it's an interesting and (humourous) look at academe at the close of the 17th century ... new online book: Alicia D'Anvers, Academia: or, the humours of the University of Oxford. (Surely this couplet has to become a tagline for a blog: I'le lay aside my Bowels yearning,/ And talk of Schollars, and their Learning.)
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