TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS 



Legend of the foundation of the Paris University by Charlemagne. The Schools of the 

 Notre-Daine Cloisters. Origin of the name University. The organization of the 

 University. The four Nations and the four Faculties. The Rector and the other 

 officers of the University. The great and the little messengers. Privileges of the 

 University. Its power and its decadence. Its political role. Creation of provincial 

 Universities. Great Schools of the Rue du Fouarre. The Paris Colleges. Turbu- 

 lence of the Students. Their Games. Their Festivals. The Lendit Fair. Foreign 

 Universities. 



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PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES 41 



Annihilation, of the Pagan Philosophy. New Christian Philosophy. Martianus Capella. 

 Boethius and Cassiodorus. Isidore of Seville. Bede, Alcuin, and Raban Maurus. 

 John Scotus Erigcna. Origin of Scholasticism. Gerbert. Realism and Nomi- 

 nalism. Beranger of Tours. Roscelin and St. Anselm. William of Chumpeaux and 

 AbelarJ. Gilbert de la Porree and St. Bernard. Amaury de Bene. Albertus 

 Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas. The Franciscans and the Dominicans. William 

 of Ockham. Decadence of Scho'asticism. Platonists and Aristotelians. The 

 [Philosophy of the Renaissance. The Lutheran Schools. P. Ramus. Montaigne. 



MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 77 



Ancient Systems of the Planetary World. Ptolemy and Aristarchus of Samoa. 

 Boethius, Pappus, and Gerbert. Suhools of Bagdad. Mathematical School in Spain, 

 Italy, England, and France. Astronomical Researches of the Arabs. Roger Bacon 

 and Master Pierre. Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas. Progress of 

 Mathematics. Popes and Kings protectors of the Exact Sciences. The King of 

 Hungary, Matthias Corvinus. Principal Works composed in the Fifteenth Century. 

 Pic Mirandola. Peter Ramus. Tycho Brahe and Copernicus. 



NATURAL SCIENCES 105 



Natural Sciences in Antiquity. Their Decadence in the Middle Ages. Rural Economy 

 in the time of Charlemagne. Tlie Monk Strabus. Botanical Gardens. Botany aided 

 by Medicine. Hildegnrde, Abbess of Bingen. Peter of Crescentiis. Vincent of 



