The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation*.(The 2003 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture)

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A persistent view holds that Renaissance universities were conservative homes of outmoded knowledge. Professors droned on about Aristotle when they should have been teaching Copernicus and Galileo. Innovative research and religious revolution went on outside the lecture halls. Students came to the university only to get the all-important arts or law degree that would give them entry into the expanding bureaucracies of government, the important areas of life. Once in the university, they spent their time brawling and laying siege to the virtue of the women of the town. So goes a ...

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