А
Abbo, of Fleury, sustains the tradition

of Alcuin's teaching, 69; his pu.

pils, 70
Abelard, pupil of William of Cham.

peaux, 57, 77, n. 1; asserts the
rights of reason against authority,

58; attacked by Gualterus, 62
Accursius, of Florence, his labours

in connexion with the civil law,

37
Ægidius, supports Aquinas against

the Franciscans, 121; & student
at the university of Paris, 134
Ælfred, king, statement of respecting

the knowledge of Latin in Eng.
land in his time, 21; exertions of,
in restoring learning, 81; founda-
tion of the university of Oxford by,

now generally rejected, 83, n. 3
Age of students at the university of
Paris in the Middle Ages, 131;
limitation with respect to, in sta-
tute respecting admission of stu-
dents at King's Hall, 253; average,
of the arts student at time of

entry, 346
Agricola, Rudolphus, prophecy of,
concerning the spread of learning
in Germany, 409; scholarship of,
410; the De Formando Studio of,
ib.; outline of the contents, ib.; the
De Inventione of, 412; the latter
recommended by Erasmus
Fisher, 497 ; a prescribed text-book

to

Alexander, de Villa Dei, author of a

common text-book on grammar

used at Cambridge, 515 and n. 1
Alliacus, cardinal, unfavorable to the

teaching of Aquinas, 123
Alne, Robert, owner of a treatise by

Petrarch lent to a master of

Michaelhouse in the 15th cent., 433
Ambrose, founder of the conception

of sacerdotal authority in the

Latin Church, 3
Ammonius, the friend of Erasmus,

492 ; letters from Erasmus to, ib.;

498, n. 3; 503, n. 3; 505 and n. 2
Ampère, view of, with respect to

Charlemagne's design, 13
Analytics, Prior and Posterior, of

Aristotle, not quoted before the

twelfth century, 29
Anaxagoras, the vous of, the basis of

the theory of the De Anima, 115
Angers, migration to, from Paris in

1228, 107
Anjou, Margaret of, character of,

312; Ultramontane sympathies
of, 313; petition of, to king Henry
vi for permission to found Queens'

College, ib.
Annunciation of B. V. Mary, college

of the, Gonville Hall so called,

245; gild of the, at Cambridge, 248
Anselm, St., successor to Lanfranc

in the see of Canterbury, 49; grow-
ing thoughtfulness of his times,
ib.; considered that nominalism
was necessarily repugnant to the
doctrine of the Trinity, 55; his
Latinity superior to that of a sub-
sequent age, 57; his death, ib.;
character and influence of his
writings, 63; perpetuated the in-
fluence of St. Augustine, ib.; his
theology characterised by Ré-
musat, 64, n. 1; none of his writ-
ings named in the catalogue of the

library of Christchurch, 104
Anstey, Mr., on the supposed exist-

ence of the university of Oxford
before the Conquest, 81, n. 1; on
the probable adoption of the sta-
tutes of the university of Paris at
Oxford, 83, 84; objections to the
theory of, of the relations of
‘grammar' to the arts course, 350,

n. 1

Antichrist, appearance of imme.

Greek, how distinguished, ib.; phi.
losophy of, not known to the
schoolmen before the thirteenth
century, 94; never mentioned in
the Sentences, ib.; all the extant
works of, known to Europe through
Latin versions before the year 1272,
ib.; writings of, on natural science
first known through versions from
the Arabic, 95; comparative accu-
racy of the versions from the Latin
and those from the Arabic, ib.; nu-
merous preceding versions through
wbich the latter were derived, ib.;
the New, difficulties of the Church
with respect to, 97; varied charac-
ter of its contents, ib.; scientific
treatises of, condemned at Paris,
ib.; and again in 1215 and 1231,
98; Dominican interpretation of,
a notable phenomenon in the thir.
teenth century, 108; psychology
of, 115; translations from the
Greek text of, 125; Nova Transla-
tio of, 126; Ethics of, newly trans-
lated under the direction of Grosse.
teste, 154; worthlessness of the
older versions of, ib.; the New, first
effects of on the value attached to
logic, 179 ; works of, studied at
Prague and Leipsic in the fifteenth
century, 282, n. 2; authority of,

attacked by Petrarch, 386
Arithmetic, treatment of the subject

by Martianus, 26; treatise on, by
Tunstal, 592; the study of, recom.

mended by Melanchthon, ib. n. 1
Argyropulos, John, 405 ; improve.

ments of on the interpretation of
Aristotle, ib.; declared Cicero had
no true knowledge of Aristotle,
406; translations of, from the
Greek, ib.; admitted excellence of
these, 407; lecture of, attended by

Reuchlin, 407
Arnobius, an objector to pagan learn.

given to the psychological theory
of Aristotle by, 116; his theory of
the Unity of the Intellect, ib.; the
first to develope the psychology of
Aristotle into a heresy, 117; criti-
cised by Aquinas, ib.; followed by
Alexander Hales, ib.; influence
exercised by, over the Franciscans,
118; differs from Aristotle in re-
garding form as the individualising
principle, 120; his writings rare
in the Cambridge libraries of the

fifteenth century, 326
Avignon, university of, formed on

the model of Bologna, 74
Avignon, subserviency of the popes

at, to French interests, 194; effects
of the papal residence at, ib.; in-
fluence of the popes at, on the uni.
versity of Paris, 215

B
Bachelor, term of, did not originally

imply admission to a degree, 352;
meaning of the term as explained

by M. Thurot, ib. n. 3.
Bachelors of arts, position of, in re-

spect to college discipline, 369
Bacon, Roger, his testimony with

respect to the condemnation of the
Arabian commentaries on Aristotle
at Paris, 98; repudiates the theory
that theological truth can be op-
posed to scientific truth, 114, n. 2;
a student at the university of Paris,
134; his testimony to the rapid
degeneracy of the Mendicants,
152; his opinion of the early trans-
lations of Aristotle, 154; his em-
barrassment when using them at
lecture, ib.; his account of some
of the translators, 155; his career
contrasted with that of Albertus
and Aquinas, 156; unique value of
his writings, ib.; his Opus Majus,
Opus Minus, and Opus Tertium,
157; his different treatises dis-
tinguished, ib. n. 1; importance
attached by him to linguistic
knowledge, 158; and to mathe-
matics, ib.; probably not a lec-
turer at Merton College, 159, n. 4;
his philosophic insight rendered
less marvellous by recent investi-
gations of Arabic scholars, 170;
his account of the evils resulting
from excessive study of the civil

law, 209
Baker, Tho., his observations on the

estates lost by St. John's College,
469

Balliol College, Oxford, a portion of

Richard of Bury's library trans-
ferred to, 203, n. 2; Wyclif master
of, 264; his efforts on behalf of the

secular clergy at, ib.
Balsham, the village of, formerly &

manor seat of the bishops of Ely,

224, n. 3
Balsham, Hugh, bp. of Ely, his elec.

tion to the see, 223; his struggle
with Adam de Marisco, 224; a Bene-
dictine prior, ib.; an eminently
practical man, 225; his merits as
an administrator, ib.; his decision
between the archdeacon and the
university, ib.; confirms the sta-
tute requiring scholars to enter
under a master, 226; introduces
secular scholars into the hospital
of St. John, 227; failure of his

scheme, ib.; his bequests, 228, n. 2
Barnes, Robt., prior of the Augus.

tinians at Cambridge, 564; sent
when young to study at Louvain,
565; returns to Cambridge with
Paynell, 566; lectures on the La-
tin classics and St. Paul's Epistles,
ib.; disputes with Stafford in the
divinity schools, 568; presided at
the meetings at the White Horse,
573; his sermon at St. Edward's
Church, 575; is accused to the
vice-chancellor, 576; is confronted
privately with his accusers in the
schools, ib.; refuses to sign a re-
vocation, 578; is arrested and exam-
ined before Wolsey in London, ib.;
is tried before six bishops at West-
minster, ib.; signs a recantation,
ib.; his narrative of the con-
clusion, ib.; disclaims being a
Lutheran, 580; is imprisoned at
Northampton, ib.; escapes to Ger.

many, ib.
Barker, John, the sophister of

King's,' 425
Barnet, bp. of Ely, omits to take the

oaths of the chancellors of the uni-

versity, 287, n. 2
Barnwell, priory at, a house of the

Augustinian canons, 139
Barnwell, the prior of, appointed by

pope Martin v to adjudicate upon
the claims of the university in the
Barnwell Process, 289; fight be-
tween and the mayor of Cam-

bridge, 374
Barnwell Process, the, terminates

the controversy concerning juris-
diction between the bishop of Ely
and the university, 146; bull for,