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 ...

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 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 ...

Academic freedom is under assault in the U.S. This attack has included state censorship of educational materials and classroom discussions; bans on initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and ...

How accounting, Aristotle, and the first teachers’ unions transformed higher education. Nowadays the worst part of being the youngest child is the hand-me-down clothes. But in the early Middle Ages, ...

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 ...

New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes discovers the murder capital of medieval England, and it wasn’t London or the medieval capital of York, but the elite university town of Oxford. Show more BBC New ...