Montaigu

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Trenton Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johann Huizinga Translated by Frederick Jan Hopman Chapter 3 The University of Paris 1495-1499 The University of Paris Traditions and Schools of Philosophy and Theology The College of Montaigu Erasmus' dislike of scholasticism Relations with the humanist Robert Gauguin 1495 How to earn a living First drafts of several of his educational works Travelling to Holland and back Bott and the Lady of Varet To England with Lord Montjoy 1499 The University of Paris was more than any other place in Christendom.

The scene of the collusion and struggle of opinions and parties.

University life in the Middle Ages was in general tumultuous and agitated.

Far beyond ecclesiastical circles, his name was proverbial on account of his abstinence.

He had definitely denied himself the use of meat.

As provisor of the College of Montaigu, he had instituted the most stringent rules there, enforced by chastisement for the slightest of faults.

To the college he had annexed a home for poor scholars, where they lived in a semi-monastic community.