. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. CHAPTER VIII. Academical Life in the Middle Ages—Popular Character of theUniversities—The Journey to Oxford—Admission to the University—Chambers and Halls—The Principals of Halls—^The Manciples—Contents of a Clerks Room—Books in Use—General Sophisters—Ouestionists—Determiners—Bachelors of Arts—The Licence to teach—The Vesperies—The Ceremonies of Inception—Regents and Non-. Regents—Payments for Lectures—The Faculty of Medicine—TheFaculty of Civil Law—The Faculty of Canon Law—The Faculty ofTheology—The Cost of In
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. CHAPTER VIII. Academical Life in the Middle Ages—Popular Character of theUniversities—The Journey to Oxford—Admission to the University—Chambers and Halls—The Principals of Halls—^The Manciples—Contents of a Clerks Room—Books in Use—General Sophisters—Ouestionists—Determiners—Bachelors of Arts—The Licence to teach—The Vesperies—The Ceremonies of Inception—Regents and Non-. Regents—Payments for Lectures—The Faculty of Medicine—TheFaculty of Civil Law—The Faculty of Canon Law—The Faculty ofTheology—The Cost of Inception—Lectures Ordinary, Cursory, andExtraordinary—The Schools—Division of the Academical Year—Processions—Funerals—The Bedels—The Proctors—The Chancellor—The Academical Courts—Convocation —The Faculty of AVING now traced the general history of theschools of Oxford from the middle of thetwelfth century down to the later part of thefourteenth, it seems desirable to pause fora while in order to examine, more closelythan has been possible hitherto, the ancient constitution ofthe University, and the ordinary course of academical life inthe middle ages. For such an examination the materials areunfortunately somewhat scanty. No writer of those days wasat the pains to describe a system which was familiar to mostof his readers, and such allusions to it as occur in the monasticchronicles are neither numerous nor important. Unlike thedifferent colleges which sprang up under its protection, the O 2 196 MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES. University of Oxford had no code of statutes. Taking itsorigin in an informal association of students bound togetherby common interests and pursuits, it flourished for some timewithout any written laws. Legislation became necessary onlywhen some old established usage was set
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