Les Universités Et La Ville Au Moyen Âge: Cohabitation Et Tension: 30 (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance) - Hardcover

In the Middle Ages, the presence of a university was a source of prestige, allure and human resources for the host town, to the extent that urban authorities sought to prevent any attempt to secede to another city. However, if the benefits of a university seemed obvious (although some major cities in medieval Europe never had one, nor sought to have one), the risks of its presence were not negligible: trouble and disorder, the privileges of the students and the Masters, etc. This book seeks to make an assessment, on a European scale, of the various ways in which the university was integrated into the city: in urban respects as much as cultural, the Studium generale marked its town, and the members of the university were often used by local institutions to be drawn upon as if from a fish pond. Contributors are: Angel Vaca Lorenzo, José Martin Martin, Carlos Heusch, Jacques Verger, Jürgen Miethke, Robert Gramsch, Karl Ubl, Sante Bortolami, Elda Forin, Carla Frova, Patrick Gilli, Nathalie Gorochov, Julian Munby, Olivier Marin and Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho.

Patrick Gilli, professor of Medieval History at the University of Montpellier-III has written several studies on the cultural and political history of the Middle Ages, including La noblesse du droit. Débats et controverses sur les juristes et la place du droit en Italie (XIIe-XVe siècles), Paris, 2003, and Villes et sociétés urbaines en Italie (milieu XIIe-milieu XIVe siècles), Paris, 2005.
Jacques Verger, professor of Medieval History at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, is a well-known specialist in the history of medieval universities and has published numerous volumes on the subject.
Daniel Le Blévec, professor of Medieval History at the University of Montpellier-III, is specialised in the history of religion and also has an interest in the history of medicine. He has co-edited the book L'Université de médecine de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe siècles) (Brepols, 2004) with Thomas Granier.