La financiación de la Universidad de Roma (siglos XIV-XV)

In recent years there is a growing interest in historiography by the uni­versities that developed in territories of the Roman Church at the end of the Middle Ages. Although we can affirm that universities that develope in this area during the modern age are “Pope’s universities”, this was not the case in the Middle Ages. The works on the Uni­versity of Perugia, also on the University of Rome, reveal the dualism between city and curia, between academic work and papal tu­telage, between municipal management, city life and the presence of the Church. And if we focus on the financing of the University of Rome, questions also arise related to the role of municipal governments in determining the financial policies of the university. This article will address the financing of the Studium Ur­bis by public authorities to observe its man­agement capacity in the specific and spatial coordinates of the University of Rome.Se aprecia en los últimos años un interés creciente en la historiografía por las universidades que se desarrollaron en territorios de la Iglesia Romana a finales de la Edad Media. Si bien podemos afirmar que existieron universidades papales en la edad moderna no fue así en la Edad Media. Los trabajos sobre la universidad de Perugia, también sobre la universidad de Roma, dejan ver el dualismo entre ciudad y curia, entre el trabajo académico y la tutela papal, entre la gestión municipal, la vida de la ciudad y la presencia de la iglesia. Y, si nos centramos en la financiación de la Universidad de Roma, también surgen cuestiones relacionadas con el papel de los gobiernos municipales en la determinación de las políticas financieras de la universidad. Este artículo abordará la financiación del Studium Urbis por parte de las autoridades públicas para observar la capacidad de gestión de la misma en las coordenadas específicas y espaciales de la Universidad de Roma

Are Scholars’ Wages Correlated with their Human Capital?

Throughout our project on premodern academia, we use a heuristic human capital index to measure each scholar’s quality. This index is built by combining several statistics from individual Wikipedia and Worldcat pages. The question we address here is whether this measure is correlated with the actual wages professors received. This note is a technical appendix to our paper on the academic market (De la Croix et al. 2020) but also has an interest as a stand-alone publication. There is considerable evidence that compensations for academic contractswentwell beyond paid salaries.1 They included payments from students, prebends,2 and many forms of in-kind benefits. Yet, it is interesting to examine the relationship between scholars’ human capital and existing data on monetary remunerations. Such remunerations have been used by Dittmar (2019) to show that professor salaries increased significantly relative to skilled wages after printing spread, with science professors benefiting from the largest salary increases. In the two sections below, we first review the available data on salaries, and argue that such data are imperfect proxies for the overall remuneration for academic services (i.e. a scholar’s market value). Keeping in mind such limitations, we thendocument a positive correlation between monetary income and scholars’ human capital.&nbsp

The Academic Market and the Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000-1800)

We argue that market forces shaped the geographic distribution of upper-tail human capital across Europe during the Middle Ages, and contributed to bolstering universities at the dawn of the Humanistic and Scientific Revolutions. We build a unique database of thousands of scholars from university sources covering all of Europe, construct an index of their ability, and map the academic market in the medieval and early modern periods. We show that scholars tended to concentrate in the best universities (agglomeration), that better scholars were more sensitive to the quality of the university (positive sorting) and migrated over greater distances (positive selection). Agglomeration, selection and sorting patterns testify to an integrated academic market, made possible by the use of a common language (Latin)

The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630

Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time.Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university.The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors.A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story

Emblemata: The emblem books of Andrea Alciato

A study of the life and works of the legal scholar and humanist, Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), the originator of the emblem book. The nature of the emblem is elucidated and placed in its historical, intellectual and artistic contexts, with special attention paid to the many and varied published manifestations of Alciato???s emblems from 1531 to 1621.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

La financiación de la Universidad de Perugia (siglos XIV-XV)

This paper aims to illustrate the funding mechanisms of Perugia University in the Middle Ages, and how they have influenced the origins and the functioning of the institution itself. Perugia University was founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century by the local government, which in the second half of the thirteenth century had already established public Lectures of Physics and Law at the expense of the municipality. Starting from a general insight about the relationship between the city government and the local University, the present essay will analyse two different aspects of the University’s funding: 1) the relationship between the city’s economic and political situation and the University’s funding; 2) the more technical questions, such as the records this funding study is based upon.Este artículo tiene como objetivo ilustrar los mecanismos de financiación de la Universidad de Perugia en la Edad Media y cómo han influido en los orígenes y el funcionamiento de la institución. La Universidad de Perugia fue fundada a principios del siglo XIV por el gobierno local, que en la segunda mitad del siglo XIII ya había establecido Conferencias de Física y Derecho a cargo de la ciudad. Partiendo de una visión general sobre la relación entre el gobierno de la ciudad y la Universidad local, el presente trabajo analizará dos aspectos diferentes de la financiación de la Universidad: 1) la relación entre la situación económica y política de la ciudad y la financiación de la Universidad; 2) las cuestiones más técnicas, como los registros en los que se basa este estudio de financiación

Spartan Daily, May 2, 1966

Volume 53, Issue 111https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4845/thumbnail.jp

Report of the President 1930-1931

https://repository.wellesley.edu/presidentsreports/1027/thumbnail.jp

Kenyon Collegian - April 20, 1962

https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/3170/thumbnail.jp

The College of Geneva

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1932. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive