Life in the Medieval University

We are now in a position to approach the main part of our subject--life in a medieval University of masters--and we propose to proceed at once to its most characteristic feature...

The student of a medieval University was, as we have seen, expected to converse in Latin, and all instruction was given in that language. It was therefore essential that, before...

The Universitates or guilds which were formed in the Studium Generale of Bologna were associations of foreign students. The lack of political unity in the Italian peninsula was...

The growing tradition of strict college discipline ultimately led to disciplinary statutes in the universities. From very early times, universities had, of course, made regulati...

The medieval student began his academic career with an initiation ceremony which varied in different countries and at different dates, but which, so far as we know, always invol...

"A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and therto soberl...

The violence which marked medieval life as a whole was not likely to be absent in towns where numbers of young clerks were members of a corporation at variance with the authorit...

The Guild or Universitas which grew up in the Studium Generale of Paris was a Society of masters, not of students. The Studium Generale was, in origin, connected with the Cathed...

Instruction given in Latin -- Preparation for the University --Grammar Masters -- French taught at Oxford -- The "Act" in Grammar --The Seven Liberal Arts and the Three Philosop...

Origin of the College System -- Merton -- Imitations of the Merton Rule -- New College -- Increase in Number of Regulations --Latin-Speaking -- Conversation in Hall -- Meals --...

Student-Guilds at Bologna -- "Nations" -- The College of Doctors -- Relations with the City -- Position of an English Law Student at Bologna, and his relations to his Nation and...

Growth of Disciplinary Regulations at Paris and Oxford --Records of the Chancellor's Court -- Discipline in Unendowed Halls -- Academic Dress restricted to Graduates -- Louvain...