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Collegial Evolution - First Universities

.Medieval Universities — Peter Jones / Serious Science > .
Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities — Serious Science > .

'The students in Bologna produce constitutions which are fascinating. For example, a professor may not leave town without the student corporation's permission, they have to leave a kind of deposit. Are you going to leave Bologna? Well, then we need a sum of money to make sure that you come back. Professors cannot miss classes, otherwise they'll be fined by the students, so the students really have the power. The students also have the power to hire and fire the professors.'

Historian Peter Jones, University of Tyumen, on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the proliferation of universities at the end of the Middle Ages. Full text: http://serious-science.org/medieval-universities-10553.

Education in the Middle Ages: http://serious-science.org/education-... .
​Liberal Arts Education: http://serious-science.org/liberal-ar... .

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Bath Abbey Photogrammetry


Bath Abbey Footprint Project: Including Romano-British tessellated floor, a rare Anglo-Saxon charcoal burial and part of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, a 12th century corbel from the previous medieval cathedral, part of a 14th century tiled floor from the medieval cathedral and a 17th century plaster lion’s head.