Student Life in the Medieval Universities - Peter Jones / Serious Science

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture.
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'Your average study day will probably start at something like 5 am: you might be getting up with a candle, it's very early. That's because ordinary lectures begin very early in the day, and these are called ordinary, but really they're the special lectures. These are the ones that count, these are the top professors, the top masters lecturing on the most important texts. Later on in the day you have the extraordinary lectures which actually despite their name are actually more cursory, more peripheral lectures, and these might be on texts that are important but not central to your study.'
Peter Jones, PhD in History, University of Tyumen
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[@marussia31]

It was very interesting to get to know. I never questioned myself about this subject and never knew the answer. This is why it was so refreshing and exciting to know. It was also smoothly presented, thank you!

[@MrLachlan1903]

Student life has seemed to have changed little in broad areas it seems. I am glad my lectures were held after the sun had risen though.

[@mikeq5807]

Very interesting!

[@TusharDeb]

So, the student life was expensive back then, and still is today. Ah the misery!

[@dinarayafizova4922]

Understood

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

He keeps saying 'young people.' They were all male - known as either boys or young men.