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THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 



Hand-painted Photogravure from' a Painting by Otto Knille. Reproduced 

 from a Photograph of the Painting by permission of the 

 Berlin Photograph Co. 

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This famous painting is now in the University of Berlin* Thomas Aquinas, 

 one of the greatest of the scholastic philosophers, surnamed the " Angelic Doc- 

 tor," is delivering a learned discourse before King Louis IX. To the right of 

 the King stands Joinville, the French chronicler. The Dominican monk with 

 his hand to his face is Guillaume de Saint Amour, and Vincent de Beauvais, 

 and another Dominican are seated with their backs to the platform desk 

 from which Thomas Aquinas is making his animated address. The picture 

 is thoroughly characteristic of a University disputation at the close of the 

 Middle Ages. 



