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Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture.
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'Your average study day will probably start at something like 5 am: you might be getting up with a candle, it's very early. That's because ordinary lectures begin very early in the day, and these are called ordinary, but really they're the special lectures. These are the ones that count, these are the top professors, the top masters lecturing on the most important texts. Later on in the day you have the extraordinary lectures which actually despite their name are actually more cursory, more peripheral lectures, and these might be on texts that are important but not central to your study.'
Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen
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Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/student-life-in-medieval-universities-10575
'Your average study day will probably start at something like 5 am: you might be getting up with a candle, it's very early. That's because ordinary lectures begin very early in the day, and these are called ordinary, but really they're the special lectures. These are the ones that count, these are the top professors, the top masters lecturing on the most important texts. Later on in the day you have the extraordinary lectures which actually despite their name are actually more cursory, more peripheral lectures, and these might be on texts that are important but not central to your study.'
Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen
Medieval Universities: serious-science.org/medieval-universities-10553
Liberal Arts Education: serious-science.org/liberal-arts-education-10545
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