The goal of the proposed workshop (to be held at the Wall Institute, March 2000) is to exchange ideas about how knowledge of the past could contribute fruitfully to present debates within the university and about how awareness of the institutional conditions of scholarship could help to improve scholarly practices. The meeting will bring a group of Renaissance scholars together with a number of experts on the modern university in order to study the interrelationship between early modern European culture and the institutional culture of the modern academy. The goal is threefold