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The Global UniversityMedieval Universities and Aspirations to Universal Significance

The Global University: Medieval Universities and Aspirations to Universal Significance [This chapter focuses on the emergence of the University of Paris in the late twelfth century and its aspirations to universal significance in the thirteenth century. Geographically the world of Parisian masters and students was much more limited than ours, and their concerns were largely limited to Christendom, so the university was not “global” in our sense. On the other hand, they aimed to save souls and thus shape events in the afterlife, so in spiritual-temporal terms their mission was more universal than that of most university scholars today. In part this chapter will show that the problems faced by universities enjoying or aspiring to global status are not as new as often supposed. I will conclude the chapter by seeking to deploy the medieval University of Paris as a heuristic device by means of which we may be able to reflect usefully on the opportunities presented to universities by globalization today.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Global UniversityMedieval Universities and Aspirations to Universal Significance

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Nelson, Adam R.; Wei, Ian P.
The Global University — Nov 5, 2015

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-35195-4
Pages
133 –151
DOI
10.1057/9780230392465_6
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter focuses on the emergence of the University of Paris in the late twelfth century and its aspirations to universal significance in the thirteenth century. Geographically the world of Parisian masters and students was much more limited than ours, and their concerns were largely limited to Christendom, so the university was not “global” in our sense. On the other hand, they aimed to save souls and thus shape events in the afterlife, so in spiritual-temporal terms their mission was more universal than that of most university scholars today. In part this chapter will show that the problems faced by universities enjoying or aspiring to global status are not as new as often supposed. I will conclude the chapter by seeking to deploy the medieval University of Paris as a heuristic device by means of which we may be able to reflect usefully on the opportunities presented to universities by globalization today.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

Keywords: High Faculty; Thirteenth Century; Fourteenth Century; Universal Significance; Academic Mobility

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