Even in medieval times, Roman Catholic scholars did not practice an ideal of complete subordination to ecclesiastical authorities, writes Jean Porter, a professor of ethics at the University of Notre ...

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The University of Pisa is a medieval institution that was built to last. One of the oldest and well-established universities in the world, and home to the teachings of the famous Galileo Galilei, the ...

Chapter 1: The Study of Music before the Founding of the Medieval Universites -- 1.1 Musical Studies among the Greeks and in the Roman Rhetorical Schools -- 1.2 Musical Studies in Christian Schools of ...

A medieval church and burials were discovered as a university transforms a shopping center into an urban campus in the U.K. Mikal Ludlow Photography University of Gloucestershire Excavations in the ...

Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University publishes the Medieval Textual Cultures of Central and Southeast Europe Series for TEAMS: Teaching Association for Medieval Studies. The ...

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