From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: Kenny, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 1994 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This book is in large part a history of Oxford University in the period between 1300 and the Black Death. The author mentions Cambridge from time to time, and devotes a chapter to higher education outside the universities; he also follows graduates through their later careers in the entourage of bishops, at the royal court or in attendance on the Pope at Avignon. But Oxford remains throughout at the center of the stage.

Courtenay regards the period 1315 to 1340 as the go...