English University Life In The Middle Ages

English University Life In The Middle Ages
Author: Alan Cobban
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135363943

This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined, demonstrating the vibrancy they brought to university life. The second half of the book is concerned with the complex methods of teaching and learning, the regime of studies taught, the relationship between the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as the relationship between "town" and "gown".

English University Life in the Middle Ages

English University Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Alan B Cobban
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134224303

First Published in 1999. This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined, demonstrating the vibrancy they brought to university life. The second half of the book is concerned with the complex methods of teaching and learning, the regime of studies taught, the relationship between the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as the relationship between "town" and "gown".

The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499

The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786452013

The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages. Much more than stodgy institutions of learning, medieval universities were exciting arenas of people and ideas. They contributed greatly to the economic vitality of their host cities and served as birthplaces for some of the era's most effective minds, laws and discoveries. This survey traces the growth of the largest medieval universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, along with the universities of Cambridge, Padua, Naples, Montpellier, Toulouse, Orleans, Angers, Prague, Vienna and Glasgow. Covering the years 1179-1499, this work discusses common traits of medieval universities, their major figures, and their roles in medieval life.

Everyday Life in Medieval England

Everyday Life in Medieval England
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826419828

Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were downtrodden and miserably poor, but they struggled against their circumstances, resisting oppressive authorities, to build their own way of life and to improve their material conditions. The ordinary men and women of the middle ages appear throughout. Everyday life in Medieval England is an outstanding contribution to both national and local history.

Universities in the Middle Ages

Universities in the Middle Ages
Author: Alan B. Cobban
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The university has proved to be one of the most enduring legacies that the Middle Ages has bequeathed to the modern world. This essay examines the concept of the medieval university, deals with the origins and subsequent expansion of the university movement, and analyzes the phenomenon of student power in southern Europe. Parallels are made throughout between medieval and modern universities to give an added perspective to the understanding of these institutions.

A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages

A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Martyn Whittock
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472107667

Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary. Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger 'the Raker' who drowned in his own sewage, a 'merman' imprisoned in Orford Castle and the sufferings of the Jews of Bristol reveal the extraordinary diversity of medieval society. Through these characters and events - and using the latest discoveries and research - the dynamic and engaging panorama of medieval England is revealed.

Universities in the Middle Ages

Universities in the Middle Ages
Author: Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1992
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 9780521541138

This, the first In the series, is also the first volume on the medieval University as a whole to be published In over a century. It provides a synthesis of the intellectual, social, political and religious life of the early University, and gives serious attention to the development of classroom studies and how they changed with the coming of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Following the first stirrings of the University In the thirteenth century, the evolution of the University is traced from the original Corporation of masters and Scholars through the early development of the colleges. The second half of the book focuses on the century from the 1440s to 1540s, which saw the flowering of the University under Tudor patronage. In the decades preceding the Reformation many colleges were founded, the teaching structures reorganised and the curriculum made more humanistic. The place of Cambridge at the forefront of northern European universities was eventually assured when Henry VIII founded Trinity College In 1546, In the face of changes and difficulties experienced during the course of the Reformation.

Medieval Life

Medieval Life
Author: Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843837226

The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material practices of medieval life, death and the afterlife. Previous historical studies of the medieval "lifecycle" begin with birth and end with death. Here, in contrast, the concept of life course theory is developed for the first time in a detailed archaeological case study. The author argues that medieval Christian understanding of the "life course" commenced with conception and extended through the entirety of life, to include death and the afterlife. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. A wide range of sources is critically employed: osteology, costume, material culture, iconography and evidence excavated from houses, churches and cemeteries in the medieval English town and countryside. Medieval Life reveals the intimate and everyday relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.