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INTRODUCTION
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of the civil law of the land, Philip le Bel refused to assent to
the papal bulls. The citizens too were indignant, and riots
ensued. In 1309 the citizens attacked the doctors and students
who had assembled in the monastery of the Jacobins, or
Dominicans, for the purpose of publishing and enforcing the
privileges granted by the Pope. For this attack the Parle-
ment of Paris, by a decree issued in the name of the king in
1311, condemned a number of the citizens to be heavily fined
and to be ignominiously marched through the town in their
shirts. Although the sentence was not carried out, this
decree implied a renewed recognition of the studium by the
state, while in the previous year the king had forbidden the
citizens to overcharge the students of the scholae for board
and lodging. The doctors having then petitioned for an ex¬
press recognition of their privileges, the king in 1312 issued
eight different letters-patent practically recognising these
privileges, but so worded as to make it clear that these
privileges were derived from him and not from the Pope.
These royal decrees are to the following effect: The king
grants his protection to the students, masters, and doctors of
Orleans ; he orders the masters and students to appoint a
dean, for the purpose of maintaining order, and he prohibits
meetings of the ‘ nations ’; he sanctions the teaching of law
in the studium ; he approves of the election, by the doctors,
of two representative citizens to co-operate with the university
authorities in keeping order, and especially in enforcing the
laws against usury ; he directs his praepositus—that is, the
provost or chief administrative official of the city—to see that
members of the studium are provided with board and lodging
at reasonable charges; he requires the ballivus, or chief judge
of the city, to swear to observe the privileges of the doctors
and students; but he expressly declares that the studium is
not to be a universitas, or to enjoy independent legislative
powers.
By these decrees Philip le Bel evidently sought to minimise
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of the civil law of the land, Philip le Bel refused to assent to
the papal bulls. The citizens too were indignant, and riots
ensued. In 1309 the citizens attacked the doctors and students
who had assembled in the monastery of the Jacobins, or
Dominicans, for the purpose of publishing and enforcing the
privileges granted by the Pope. For this attack the Parle-
ment of Paris, by a decree issued in the name of the king in
1311, condemned a number of the citizens to be heavily fined
and to be ignominiously marched through the town in their
shirts. Although the sentence was not carried out, this
decree implied a renewed recognition of the studium by the
state, while in the previous year the king had forbidden the
citizens to overcharge the students of the scholae for board
and lodging. The doctors having then petitioned for an ex¬
press recognition of their privileges, the king in 1312 issued
eight different letters-patent practically recognising these
privileges, but so worded as to make it clear that these
privileges were derived from him and not from the Pope.
These royal decrees are to the following effect: The king
grants his protection to the students, masters, and doctors of
Orleans ; he orders the masters and students to appoint a
dean, for the purpose of maintaining order, and he prohibits
meetings of the ‘ nations ’; he sanctions the teaching of law
in the studium ; he approves of the election, by the doctors,
of two representative citizens to co-operate with the university
authorities in keeping order, and especially in enforcing the
laws against usury ; he directs his praepositus—that is, the
provost or chief administrative official of the city—to see that
members of the studium are provided with board and lodging
at reasonable charges; he requires the ballivus, or chief judge
of the city, to swear to observe the privileges of the doctors
and students; but he expressly declares that the studium is
not to be a universitas, or to enjoy independent legislative
powers.
By these decrees Philip le Bel evidently sought to minimise
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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