Section 05 of 05

Schools

Bologna’s students hired, paid and fined their own professors, and the books they read were rented out in pieces to be copied. Three entries on how the teaching was organised.

3 entries

• 14BolognaA university organised by the students, who hired and fined their own professors — a structure that shaped what a degree meant.
• 15The studiumWhat a medieval faculty actually taught, and in what order.
• 16Books before printThe pecia system let a stationer rent out one exemplar in pieces so several scribes could copy at once.

Every entry in this section is also in the register, ordered by number.