The ceremony has come down to us directly from the medieval universities. In the twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers ...

850) and the Dominican friar Albert the Great (c.1250). Medieval universities valued outdoor places–scholars of Paris had the field of St. Germaine for recreation in the 13th century; Oxford colleges ...

It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by Humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the ...