Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Setting the Stage: Medieval Life     

I. MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES: AN OVERVIEW     
II. THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA     
III. LEGAL SCHOLARS AT BOLOGNA     
IV. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS     
V. THREE SCHOLARS AND A HERETIC (OR A SAINT)     
VI. THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD     
VII. LUMINARIES AT OXFORD     
VIII. TEN OTHER UNIVERSITIES     
IX. MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES AND HUMANISM     
X. THE IMPACTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES ON MEDIEVAL LIFE     

Appendix 1. A University Student’s Possessions     
Appendix 2. Three Excerpts from Peter Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)     
Appendix 3. John of Garland on “How Students Should Behave”     
Appendix 4. The Pecia System     
Appendix 5. Two Letters of 21 November 1430 from the University of Paris     
Appendix 6. Medieval Requirements for Becoming a Physician     

Chronology     
Glossary     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index