Book contents
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- 1 John Calvin’s Life
- 2 French Christianity in the Early 1500s
- 3 The University of Paris during Calvin’s Life
- 4 French Humanism
- 5 French Religious Politics
- 6 The French Wars of Religion
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
3 - The University of Paris during Calvin’s Life
from Part I - France and Its Influence
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Book contents
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- 1 John Calvin’s Life
- 2 French Christianity in the Early 1500s
- 3 The University of Paris during Calvin’s Life
- 4 French Humanism
- 5 French Religious Politics
- 6 The French Wars of Religion
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The university was a medieval invention and therefore a very medieval institution. Its very name, as Hastings Rashdall explained, grew out of the word universitas, which denoted both “an aggregate of persons,” and a “legal corporation.”1 The University of Paris, like the other early university, the University of Bologna, emerged at the end of the twelfth century and reflected the flowering of culture and learning of the 12th Century Renaissance.2 While Bologna came to be known for its Faculty of Law, Paris emerged as the “archetypal” University in the Faculties of Arts and Theology.
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- John Calvin in Context , pp. 25 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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Suggested Further Readings
Paul, F. Grendler, “The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation,” Renaissance Quarterly 57:1 (Spring 2004), 1–42.Google Scholar
Rummel, Erika, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).Google Scholar