The papacy and the rise of the universities / / by Gaines Post ; edited with preface by William J. Courtenay.

• Superior document: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 54
• VerfasserIn: Post, Gaines, 1902-1987,
• TeilnehmendeR: Courtenay, William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : BRILL,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; Volume 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages).

One of the leading historians of medieval universities in the last generation, Gaines Post published less than a quarter of his 1931 dissertation on the role of the papacy in the rise of universities. The entire work merits publication, both because of the remaining content and because it reveals more on how Gaines Post, a product of Charles Homer Haskins' seminar at Harvard in the late 1920s, approached his subject. The volume covers the interaction of the papacy with multiple universities from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and opens up a much broader range of topics, considering papal intervention and influence in the areas of licensing to teach, financial support for masters and students, dispensations for study, regulation of housing rents, and the founding of colleges.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gaines Post -- Introduction / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The Twelfth Century—Alexander III and the Licentia docendi / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The License-System of the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The License-System in Universities of Ecclesiastical Origin Influenced by Paris / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The License-System in Universities of Secular Origin / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The License-System, Conclusion: the Licentia ubique docendi / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- Jurisdiction / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The Papacy and the Internal Development of the Universities / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The Papacy and the Masters / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- The Papacy and the Students / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- Conclusion: The Papacy and the Founding of the Universities / Gaines Post and William J. Courtenay -- Bibliography / Gaines Post -- Index / Gaines Post.