Description
This edition of texts resulting from supplications by the University of Paris for papal benefice support in the first half of the fourteenth century provides new biographical information on some 1600 Parisian masters, many of them previously undocumented.
'…stunning achievement…a giant step towards a biographical register of fourtheenth-century Paris masters…impeccably edited work.' James K. Farge, Oxford University Press, History of Universities, 2004.
William J. Courtenay, Ph.D. (1967), Harvard, is the Charles Homer Haskins Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively in the areas of medieval intellectual history and the history of universities. Among his recent books are Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England (Princeton, 1987) and Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century (Cambridge, 1999).