Meanings of mediaeval universities in English

SCHOLASTICAE] of the 'schoolmen', Scotus, Aquinas, &c., who taught philosophy in the mediaeval universities.

There is no question that the long series of privileges granted to mediaeval universities influences the university life of to-day.

The history of mediaeval universities is profoundly important, not only for students, but also for administrators, of modern higher education.

The ways and means of teaching in mediaeval universities were few and simple in comparison with those of our own times.

This privilege is directly traceable to those of the mediaeval universities, and possibly through them to Roman laws on the subject.

The examination, as an exercise leading to a degree, is one phase of modern educational practice which comes from mediaeval universities.

On this point the words of Mr. Hastings Rashdall, a leading authority on mediaeval universities, are instructive:...

Finally, the itinerant students and teachers of mediaeval universities assisted in the making of this common fund of ideas and material for literature.

College by the Legislature of the colony (187 a) and those granted to mediaeval universities (103-105).

But the great mediaeval universities were not brought into being, we may be sure, by the zeal for giving a jejune and contemptible education.

The medical faculty continued to be, as in the mediaeval universities, the smallest of all the faculties and amounted to little before the nineteenth century.

In the mediaeval universities the professors, or "schoolmen", devoted themselves to the elaborate formulation of Christian doctrine and the interpretation of Aristotle's works.

Numerous other universities arose directly from the same impulse, and "Law was the leading Faculty in by far the greater number of mediaeval universities" (Rashdall).

Title: Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities

General References on the History of Mediaeval Universities.=

You ought to have been at one of those really mediæval universities that we saw on the other side, at Oxford, or Göttingen, or Padua.