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Title: Life in the Medieval University

Author: Robert S. Rait

Release Date: April 2, 2007 [EBook #20958]

Language: English

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LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
London: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4
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[Illustration: Arms]

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[Illustration: The Student's Progress (From Gregor Reisch's _Margarita
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LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY

BY

ROBERT S. RAIT, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1918

_First Edition, 1912_
_Reprinted 1918_

_With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design
on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest
known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521._

NOTE ON THE FRONTISPIECE

In this picture the schoolboy is seen arriving with his satchel and
being presented with a hornbook by Nicostrata, the Latin muse
Carmentis, who changed the Greek alphabet into the Latin. She admits
him