Life in the Medieval University
Life in the Medieval University, published in 1912 in the Cambridge Manuals series, is a short study by the Scottish historian Robert S. Rait. After explaining how the first universities grew out of guilds, Rait contrasts the student-run universities of Bologna with the masters' universities of Paris, then turns to daily life in a university of masters: college rules and their enforcement, university discipline, the rough initiation ceremonies that greeted new students, lectures, disputations and the long road to a degree. He quotes freely from statutes and records, and the result is a lively, well-documented picture of how medieval students lived, studied and misbehaved. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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