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

法学におけるリヨンの重要人物－リヨン大学法学部150周年記念
Untermaier-Kerleo, Elise / Fillon, Catherine (dir.), Grandes figures lyonnaises du droit: 150e anniversaire de la faculte de droit de Lyon. 518 p. 2025:6 (LexisNexis, FR) <753-774>
ISBN 978-2-7110-4221-0 hard ¥9,652.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Lyu, Yuhua, The Classical Academy: Higher Education in Ancient China. (Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture) 179 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1911>
ISBN 978-981-9672-56-1 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is one of the first to give a systematic account of shuyuan in English. Shuyuan (Classical Academies), as a type of higher education institution in ancient China, were closely related to the philosophical thoughts, social atmosphere, and humanistic cultivation in those times when they were prevalent, thus proving to be a worthy subject of study. This book collects and sorts out relevant historical materials, so as to explore the social environment where shuyuan were established, introduces a group of ancient scholars with strong personalities, reexamine their cultural heritage, and builds a bridge connecting modern and ancient thoughts.

Norlin, Bjoern, The Swedish Missionary Society and Sami Schooling, c. 1835-1920. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 182 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1912>
ISBN 978-3-031-96306-3 hard ¥12,371.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important ac-tor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sami during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools for Sami children and youth in small rural villages in the northern inlands of Sweden. The missionary schools enrolled several thousand children in the approximately eighty-year-period they operated, for many decades being the predominant school for the Sami. The impulse behind the creation of the SMS came from evangelical move-ments such as British Methodism, which helped to initiate the Stock-holm-based society in 1835, and aided the startup of a school in the Swed-ish colony of Saint-Barthelemy in the West Indies. The society was supported by private donations, as well as financial aid and supervision from the Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran state church. It kept in operation between five to ten schools and or-phanages until the so-called 'nomadic school' reform in 1913, when the mission-ary schools were either shut down, modified to become Swedish primary schools, or subsumed under the new and expanding state-governed nomadic school sys-tem. By examining school practice aimed at Sami pupils in Sweden, this book provides valuable insights into the overall organisation and curriculum of the mis-sionary schools, their ideological driving forces, and their relation to global devel-opments and the ongoing formation of the Swedish primary school sys-tem. Such knowledge helps deepen our understanding of the long-term organisation of Sami education in Sweden, and more broadly within the Nordic countries. Through its analysis, this book seeks to develop the history of missionary educa-tion, as well as research into settler colonial and Indigenous schooling.

15世紀コンスタンティノープルにおける高等教育
Petrou, Elias, Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century. (Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies) 400 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1913>
ISBN 978-1-032-76013-1 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Higher Education in Byzantine Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century explores the intellectual life and educational institutions of 15th-century Constantinople, a period often overlooked in the history of Byzantine scholarship. While the twilight of the empire is frequently associated with decline, this book demonstrates that it was, in fact, a time of vibrant intellectual activity, laying crucial groundwork for the Renaissance in the West.Drawing on a wide array of primary sources-including manuscripts, codices, letters, and treatises-this book reconstructs the networks of teachers and students, the transmission of Classical Greek texts, and the methods of instruction that defined higher education in late Byzantium. It presents the cultural landscape of the final Byzantine century as a dynamic space of learning where Classical heritage was not merely preserved but reinterpreted and reactivated in a world on the brink of transformation.This volume will appeal to scholars of Byzantine, Medieval, and Classical Studies, as well as historians of education and intellectual history. Its interdisciplinary approach offers fresh insights to paleographers, codicologists, and special collections professionals, while its broader narrative speaks to anyone interested in the pivotal cultural exchanges between East and West that helped shape modern Europe. This is the first comprehensive account of Byzantine higher education during this era, illuminating a missing link in the story of the Renaissance and the survival of Hellenic knowledge.