The history of universities has long been an object of scholarly research. Nonetheless, the proposed questions and themes have too often been handled in isolation. The present collection, divided into three thematic sections, attempts to connect subjects which are bound together in the context of the idea of the university and the course of its historical realization.The first section concentrates on the rational process which characterized the development of the university. Section two is devoted to the relationship between the organizational forms of the university and the literary forms of university texts. Section three concerns itself with the differentiation and institutionalization of schools of thought in the later Middle Ages.The volume contains fourteen studies resulting from new and original research and concludes with an extensive bibliography.

Preface List of Abbreviations Part 1: Universities between Institution and Career Institution und Ideengeschichte. Zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung der mittelalterlichen Universitat Wolfgang Kluxen Der Mendikantenstreit und die GRenzen von Theologie und Philosophie Georg Wieland Albert le Grand et la mystiqie allemandeAlain de Libera University and Chruch in Late Medieval Vienna: Modi dicendi et operandi, 1388-1421 Michael H. Shank Part 2: Organizational Structures and Literary Genres Wissenschaftseinlung und institutionelle Folgen Jacob Hans Josef Schneider Die Literarische Gattung der Theoremata als Residuum einer Wissenschaft more geometrico Mechtild Dreyer Les 'guides de l'etudiant' de la Faculte des arts de l'Universite de Paris au XIIIe siecle Claude Lafleur Les regles d'examen dans les universites medievales Olga Weijers Bursen und Artesfakultat der alten Kolner Universitat Erich Meuthen Part 3: Late Medieval Universities. School Formation and School Conflict Scotus und der Scotismus. Ein Beitrag zur Bedeutung der Schulbildung in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie Ludger Honnefelder Was there an Ockhamist School? William J. Courtenay La crise des annees 1474-1482: L'interdiction du Mominalisme par Louis XI Zenon Kaluza Late Medieval Schools of Though in the Mirror of University Textsbooks. The Promptuarium argumentorum (Cologne 1492) Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen Der lateinische Averroismus im Mittelalter und in der FruhRenaissance Zdzislaw Kuksewicz Contributors Bibliography Indices