Tuesday 4 June 2013

Medieval examinations

Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879-1963), regius professor of modern history at Oxford, describing the form of examination for a master or doctorate in a medieval university: "I doubt if I could ever have passed an examination of this kind."

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F.M. Powicke, "Presidential Address: some problems in the history of the medieval university," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth Series, vol. 17, (1934), p. 18.

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