Perhaps the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the university, an institution for which there was no precedent in the history of the West. It sprang into ...
Perhaps the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the university, an institution for which there was no precedent in the history of the West. It sprang into ...
The emergence of the medieval universities marked one of the most significant institutional developments in European intellectual history. Unlike monasteries or cathedral schools that preceded them, ...
Pessimists often compare today's troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison. The ...
As universities prepare for a new regime of regulation aimed at monitoring the quality of their teaching, they may find some comfort in the 900-year-old history of debates around autonomy, governance, ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—For three days in May, Western Michigan University will become a hub for medieval scholarship, welcoming ...