Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

戦後イギリスにおける教育と工学
Heywood, John, In Search of Technological Excellence: Education and Engineering in Post-War Britain. 528 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <746-378>
ISBN 978-0-19-890404-5 hard ¥37,171.- (税込) GB￡ 132.00

The notion that Britain was losing its international industrial competitiveness has preoccupied governments since the Second World War. Policymakers have sought to address this over the years, and yet Britain's relative industrial decline has appeared to continue, raising questions about its root causes. In Search of Technological Excellence analyses the policymaking and policy implementation in the education of engineers and technologists from the 1945 report of the Percy Committee on Higher Technological Education to the conclusion of the Thatcher government's Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative. Using a plethora of previously unpublished sources, this book focuses on the untold story of what the reports of the three key committees in this fifty-year period - Percy (1945), Fielden (1963) and Finniston (1980) - actually achieved in secondary and higher technological education. The core themes of this volume include industrial training and its assessment, the controversy over the structure of industrial sandwich courses, the perceived requirements for qualified specialists (the 'manpower' controversy), curriculum development, creativity and innovation in engineering, engineers as managers, and engineering in schools. Thought-provoking and comprehensive, In Search of Technological Excellence reflects on perennial problems to help clarify how this history can inform policymaking today and will be of interest to policymakers, practitioners and students in engineering education and public administration.

Baneu, Alexandra (ed.), The Art of Taking Notes at the University: Etienne Gaudet (Paris, ca. 1320-1392). (Note-taking and Notebooks Across Medieval Europe 1) 350 pp. 2025:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1387>
ISBN 978-3-11-076282-2 hard ¥25,518.- (税込) EUR 109.95

The library of Etienne Gaudet has preoccupied scholars in the field of medieval history and philosophy. It arose the interest of Palemon Glorieux, who misattributed some of the manuscripts from this library to Jean de Falisca. The error was later corrected by Zenon Kaluza in his seminal work dedicated to Thomas of Cracow. What the present volume brings on top of the research already dedicated to the subject comes from the fact that our methodology if heavily influenced by the insight that most of what this library transmits consists of notes. Keeping that in mind, we have been able to discover fragments of texts that had been considered lost, correctly identify lesser-known figures mentioned in these manuscripts (or at least challenge old identifications) and understand some doctrinal aspects from a different perspective. Another important issue that comes to light in the present volume is the way Etienne Gaudet used and reused his notes, wrote tables to retrieve them, abbreviated texts from other authors and drafted his own works. This volume will be relevant to the scholar studying medieval academic practices of the late fourteenth century, since it introduces them to new and exciting materials that are a direct testimony of what happened in the proverbial classroom. It will also be of extreme interest to scholars who study the practice of note-taking and for whom the Middle Ages have not yet been very generous.

ビザンツ時代のテッサロニキにおける教育と学習
Pontani, Filippomaria (ed.), Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessaloniki. (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 164) 220 pp. 2024:10 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1389>
ISBN 978-3-11-142147-6 hard ¥25,518.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

Byzantine Thessaloniki has often been considered in its relationship with Constantinople, as a deuteragonist vis-a-vis the capital. However, from the 11th through the 15th century the symproteuousa has often played an important role in terms of the study, preservation and circulation of learning. The present volume collects 11 papers originating in a conference held at Thessaloniki's Kentro Istorias in May 2022. Some of them offer new elements and fresh discoveries on single erudites and their work, from Michael Mitylenaios to John Pediasimos, from Demetrios Triklinios to Thomas Magister, from Matthew Blastares to Manuel Boullotes. Hagiography, schedography, lexicography, philology on ancient Greek texts, and even canonical law, are among the genres practised by Thessalonian scholars over the centuries. Other papers offer thoughts on Eustathios' didactic aims, bird's-eye views of the city's intellectual milieux in the early Palaeologan era, or of the learned circles in Manuel II's entourage. The book acknowledges the "highs" and the "lows" in the cultural development of medieval Thessaloniki, and brings together essential elements towards an assessment of the city's role in the history of education and learning.