Q 1. Review a typical medieval day at the University of Paris and Chaucer's portrait of the clerk at Oxford. What do these materials suggest about academic life?
The University of Paris, founded in 1150, was the best-known university to emerge during Europe’s Middle Ages. One aspect of the university that speaks to its high quality of academic life is the fact that its professors were recruited from abroad and that students flocked from all over the continent to attend the school. Methods of transportation in the 12th century were brutal.
