Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities

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William Heinemann, 1893 - 315 pagina's
 

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Pagina 62 - was entitled to the name ( Universitas ' about 1140," 4 and which in any case comprised a great number of students at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century...
Pagina 279 - ... m It is much more difficult to form an idea of the ordinary habits of professors in the early universities, than of those of the students. Autobiographies were not in 1 A pupil who did not denounce the fault of his comrade was punished like the guilty one. fashion in the Middle Ages. Absorbed in their professorial duties, the masters of that day did not, as a rule, provoke much gossip. They did not mingle in society, and were brilliant only in their chairs. "I have known...
Pagina 168 - ... carriages, the noise of which might disturb the scholastic exercises ; a turnkey opens the door to students and closes it behind them.4 Other students, but in 1 It is known that the City, that is to say, the little island on which Notre Dame is built, had been originally the centre of studies ; but gradually the schools and scholars crossed the bridges and established themselves on the left bank of the Seine, in what is still known as the Latin Quarter. 2 In some verses entitled : Of the Unhappy...
Pagina 189 - They dispute before dinner," said Vives,1 in 1531; "they dispute during dinner; they dispute after dinner; they dispute in private and in public, at all times and in every place." And the same author has given a satirical description of these interminable disputes : " Their self-esteem," he says, " bound them to get up questions on the simplest propositions. On the mere words, Scribe mihi, they put questions of grammar, physics, and metaphysics.
Pagina 126 - And they complacently recall how Ferdinand, King of Spain, caused the Rector of the University of Alcala to be seated between Cardinal Ximenes and himself. The election of the rector, also, was surrounded everywhere by a great number of precautions and formalities. The heads of the universities were chosen with very nearly the same forms as were the popes; the duration of the conclave which was to elect them was even determined by that of the flame of a candle of fixed weight. The installation of...
Pagina 22 - It is, therefore, permissible to conclude that we are not deceived in attributing to Abelard the first place in a study of the origin of the universities and the causes which gave them birth. Abelard was the real founder of the University of Paris, and by that fact the promoter of all the universities created in its image. He was its founder in several ways : at first through his reputation, by habituating foreigners to come to Paris for the purpose of studying there, and by assembling vast audiences...

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