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Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages.
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'I think one mistake people often make about medieval universities when they think about them, is that they think that they were actually always these free spaces of inquiry, that actually they were peaceful environments in which students learned for the sake of learning or whatever. But actually, what you find when you dig into the history of the medieval university is there's an enormous amount of conflict, controversy. As I say, there's great violence, people are burnt at the stake as a result of things that they said in a university or in a context or as a result of university masters ruling against them.'
Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen
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Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/academic-freedom-in-medieval-universities-10597
'I think one mistake people often make about medieval universities when they think about them, is that they think that they were actually always these free spaces of inquiry, that actually they were peaceful environments in which students learned for the sake of learning or whatever. But actually, what you find when you dig into the history of the medieval university is there's an enormous amount of conflict, controversy. As I say, there's great violence, people are burnt at the stake as a result of things that they said in a university or in a context or as a result of university masters ruling against them.'
Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen
Medieval Universities: serious-science.org/medieval-universities-10553
History of Laughter: serious-science.org/history-of-laughter-9786
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