Volume XXVIII/2 of 'History of Universities' contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The chapter topics covered include: reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance; references to ancient Greece and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations from 1625 to 1850; the study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteen-century Protestant Germany; and the foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine from 1931 to 1934.