Life in the medieval university / by Robert S. Rait.

  • Rait, Robert S. (Robert Sangster), 1874-1936.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Life in the medieval university / by Robert S. Rait. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Congregation. On the Saturday after the Feast of Trinity, the stigma was burned on the criminal’s hand, and as a necessary consequence he was banished. Town riots do not complete the tale of violence. There were struggles with Jews, and a Jewish row at Oxford in 1268 resulted in the erection of a cross with the following inscription :— Quis meus auctor erat ? Judaei. Quomodo ? Sumptu Quis jussit ? Kegnans. Quo procurante ? Magistri. Our ? Cruce pro fracta ligni. Quo tempore ? Fes to Ascensus Domini. Quis est locus ? Hie ubi sisto. Clerks’ enemies were not always beyond their own household. The history of Paris, the earlier history of Oxford, and the record of many another Univer- sity give us instances of mortal combats between the Nations. The scholars of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, had to face the mortal enmity of the monks of the Abbey of St Germain, the meadow in front of which was claimed by the Faculty of Arts. The sight of Paris students walking or playing on the Pre-aux-clercs had much the same effect upon the Abbot and monks as the famous donkeys had upon the strong-minded aunt of David Copperfield, but the measures they took for suppressing the nuisance were less exactly proportioned to the offence. One summer day in 1278, masters and scholars went for recreation to