UNIVERSITY AND HISTORY. THE LESSON OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (AN INTRODUCTION)
UNIVERSITY AND HISTORY. THE LESSON OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (AN INTRODUCTION)

Summary/Abstract: The following text has two main objectives: on the one hand, it intends to introduce the reader in a very cursory manner to some of the most important contributions made by the medieval university not only to the general development of higher education, distinguishable up until today, but also to the history of pre-modern European society. On the other hand, acknowledging the importance of university for the transformation (and “Europeanization”) of Transylvania from the second half of the 14th century until the 1550s, the author reflects briefly upon significant investigations concerning university, academic life and intellectuals in the Middle Ages conducted by scholars and research groups (especially during the last two decades) of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

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