. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . h wholly modernised, opposite the foot ofthe Petit Pont. Its name has been derived from the strawspread on the floor of the schools or on which the studentssat, but there is little doubt that Benvenuto da Imolas*explanation, that it was so named from a hay and strawmarket held there, is the correct one. The wonderful thirteenth century saw the meridianglory of the university. It was the age of the greatAristotelian schoolmen who all taught at Paris—AlbertusMagnus, St Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and RogerBacon
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . h wholly modernised, opposite the foot ofthe Petit Pont. Its name has been derived from the strawspread on the floor of the schools or on which the studentssat, but there is little doubt that Benvenuto da Imolas*explanation, that it was so named from a hay and strawmarket held there, is the correct one. The wonderful thirteenth century saw the meridianglory of the university. It was the age of the greatAristotelian schoolmen who all taught at Paris—AlbertusMagnus, St Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and RogerBacon, their candid critic, who carried the intellectualcuriosity of the age beyond the tolerance of his Franciscansuperiors and twice suffered disciplinary measures at Paris. Par. X. 136. Who lecturing in Straw St. deduced truths thatbrought him hatred. ^ Benvenuto was certainly in France and possibly in Paris during thefourteenth century. At any rate he would be familiar with Parisianstudents, many of whom were Italians, W^^:^u:<^^:r^:^^mi^~^^-^^9!Slfa^^ mimn j, ;^iimtj,.. J Le Petit Pont, ART AND LEARNING AT PARIS loi In the fourteenth century the university was asrenowned as ever. Among many tributes from greatscholars we choose that of Richard de Bury, bishop ofDurham, who in his Philobiblon writes : O Holy Godof gods in Zion, what a mighty stream of pleasure madeglad our hearts whenever we had leisure to visit Paris, theParadise of the world, and to linger there ; where the daysseemed ever few for the greatness of our love ! There aredelightful libraries more aromatic than stores of spicery ;there are luxuriant parks of all manners of volumes ; thereare Academic meads shaken by the tramp of scholars ; thereare lounges of Athens ; walks of the Peripatetics ; peaks ofParnassus ; and porches of the Stoics. There is seen thesurveyor of all arts and sciences Aristotle, to whom belongsall that is most excellent in doctrine, so far as relates to thispassing sublunary worl
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