Delving into the Tangled Involvement of academic institutions with the benefice system in the Early Modern Period, this book focuses on an anomaly: medieval privileges that provided academics at Louva
In “A Pearl of Powerful Learning”, Paul W. Knoll provides a fully developed treatment of the institutional, social, and intellectual life of the University of Cracow, an important late medieval school
The matter under study here is not priests and pastors pursuing reform, but the reform of priests and pastors under the 1563 decree by the Council of Trent that all dioceses in Catholic territories bu
In Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200-1400, Gregory S. Moule explains how the theological faculty acquired independent jurisdiction over
There has been much study of academic condemnation, says Larsen (history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette U.), but it has been focused largely on the propositions condemned and how both the pr
In 1994, medieval historian Bullough was still working on what was to be a two-volume account of the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin (735-804). Sometime after that, he died with the project unfinished. He
This study uses university commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as a window onto changing ideals and practices of education and of humanist Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, particularly
This collaborative volume explores how the creation and the crossing of faculty, disciplinary and social boundaries contributed to the development of the medieval European university.
Through a detailed reconstruction of schooling in late medieval Regensburg, this book provides fresh insights into the complex cultural, political, and institutional contexts in which the educational
In Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England, Andrew Reeves shows how English laypeople learned the basic doctrines of the Christian faith in the thirteenth century.
This previously unpublished 1931 dissertation by Gaines Post covers the interaction of the papacy with multiple universities from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and makes his research and observ
This volume continues the edition of the "rotuli," or lists of benefice supplications, sent to the papacy by masters, bachelors, and students at the University of Paris in the fourteenth century. It s
This book explains how the Ars medicine ("The Art of Medicine") became the basic curriculum in the early universities. It shows how copies of this collection were produced, who owned them and how they
In The Vices of Learning Sari Kivisto examines scholarly vices, such as pride, plagiarism and the desire for fame, in over one hundred Latin dissertations and treatises from the late Baroque and early
For Black (Renaissance history, U. of Leeds, UK), the triumph of lay education and literacy in Florence and Florentine Tuscany played a central role in the flourishing of the Italy's urban commercial
