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The university in medieval life, 1179-1499
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"The university is indigenous to Western Europe and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages, and served as the birthplace for effective laws and discoveries. This survey traces the growth of t...
"The university is indigenous to Western Europe and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages, and served as the birthplace for effective laws and discoveries. This survey traces the growth of the largest medieval universities and discusses common traits of medieval universities, major figures associated with each, and the role of the university in medieval life"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Hunt Janin
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- English
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- Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2008
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- xii, 218 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780786434626, 0786434627
- OCLC
- ocn220330892
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
- Setting the stage : medieval life -- Medieval universities : an overview -- The University of Bologna -- Legal scholars at Bologna -- The University of Paris -- Three scholars and a heretic (or a saint) -- The University of Oxford -- Luminaries at Oxford -- Ten other universities -- Medieval universities and humanism -- The impacts of the universities on medieval life -- Appendices. A university student's possessions -- Three excerpts from Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum (The story of my misfortunes) -- John of Garland on "How students should behave" -- The Pecia system -- Two letters of 21 November 1430 from the University of Paris -- Medieval requirements for becoming a physician