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Universities and Established Learning: Transformation or Continuity?

I. An academic golden age, 1400-1650
Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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I.1. University foundations in Europe, 1400-1800
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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II. What was a university?
II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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III. What was taught?
III.1 The university curriculum
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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IV. How was it taught?
IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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V. The Renaissance and the universities
V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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VI. The Reformation and the universities
VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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Appendix. What did universities look like?
Repurposed buildings: churches
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Colleges
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