Philosophy and Learning: Universities in the Middle Ages

The history of universities has long been an object of scholarly research, but the proposed questions and themes have often been considered in isolation. This text, divided into three thematic sections, attempts to connect subjects which are bound together in the context of the idea of the university and the course of its historic realization. The first section concentrates on the rational process which characterized the development of the university. The next section is devoted to the relationship between the organizational forms of the university and the literary forms of university texts. Section Three concerns itself with the differentiation and institutionalization of schools of thought in the later Middle Ages. The volume contains 14 studies resulting from new and original research and concludes with an extensive bibliography.