The liberal arts tradition
Subtitle: a documentary history
By: [collected and edited by] Bruce A. Kimball
Contributors: Association for Core Texts and Courses
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780761851325; 9780761851332
Notes: Published in cooperation with the Association for Core Texts and Courses.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The disputed origins; title: Section 1. Debates in antiquity; title: Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery; title: Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500; title: Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600; title: Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college; title: Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s; title: Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s; title: Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s; title: Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century; title: Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.