Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Stanford University

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

History & Humanities

Standalone talks by Niall Ferguson

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

Networks, Hierarchies, and Lessons from Medieval Universities

3 ch1:27:35

History·Public Colloquium

Networks, Hierarchies, and Lessons from Medieval Universities

Niall Ferguson·Stanford University

Contrasts decentralized intellectual networks with centralized state hierarchies from medieval monastic guilds and the printing press to modern digital platforms.