Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century

Thisstudyofthesocial,geographicalanddisciplinarycompositionofthescholarlycommunityattheUniversityofParisintheearlyfourteenthcenturyisbasedonthereconstructionofaremarkabledocument:thefinancialrecordoftaxleviedonuniversitymembersintheacademicyear1329–1330.Containingthenames,financiallevelandoftenaddressesofthemajorityofthemastersandmostprominentstudents,itisthesinglerichestsourceforthesocialhistoryofamedievaluniversitybeforethelatefourteenthcentury.Afterathoroughexaminationofthefinancialaccount,thehistoryofsuchcollections,andthecase(arapebyastudent)thatprecipitatedlegalexpensesandtheneedforacollection,thebookexploresresidentialpatterns,therelationshipofstudents,mastersandtutors,socialclassandlevelsofwealth,interactionwiththeroyalcourtandthegeographicalbackgroundofuniversityscholars.