BUTTIMER, ANNE:
The Wake of Erasmus. Saints, Scholars, and Studia in Mediaeval Norden.
Lund; Department of Geography at Lund University / Bromley; Chartwell-Bratt, 1990. [x] + 80 pp. & list of publications. Original printed wrappers. ''In the archives of Lund University library sit three venerable volumes each bearing the inscription ''Liber Fratrum Minorum Conventus Lundensis'': scanty evidence indeed of the studium generale which was initiated in that town by Franciscan friars in 1438. Over half a millenium afterwards Lund University celebrated its memory. What was a studium generale? Who were the Franciscans? And wherefore this celebration?''. The book ''sketches the historical contexts in which university life unfolded in mediaeval Europe, its sensitivities to the changing patterns of war, schism, and pestilence and vicissitudes of ecclestiastical and imperial politics, before finally reaching Scandinavian shores. A central focus rests on the role of Mendicant Orders, Dominican and Franciscan, in shaping the curricula and geographical diffusion of studia generalia from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries, providing links too between students from Norden and their peers throughout the rest of Europe.'' (back cover text).
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