Scholastic University Education

Timeline

1. c. 1150–1300Paris and Bologna · BolognaIn the 12th–13th centuries, colleges such as the Sorbonne at the University of Paris centered on lectio (lecture), disputatio (disputation), and quaestio (question discussion); Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others incorporated Aristotelian philosophy into theological systems, forming the golden age of scholasticism.
2. 1300–1380Oxford and Prague · PragueIn the 14th century, Ockham and others promoted nominalism (via moderna), rivaling the Scotist tradition (via antiqua); in 1348 Charles University was founded in Prague, extending the scholastic educational network into Central Europe and intensifying tensions between university autonomy and church jurisdiction.
3. 1381–1390Oxford and Paris · ParisAfter the 1381 English Peasants' Revolt, the spread of Wycliffe's ideas was suppressed; in 1382 the Blackfriars council in London condemned his works, and under church pressure Oxford University censored Lollard scholars. Meanwhile the University of Paris still maintained the scholastic disputation tradition, but the Great Schism weakened the papacy's unified jurisdiction over academic institutions.