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Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages

Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture

Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the proliferation of universities at the end of the Middle Ages

Education in the Middle Ages

Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages

Renaissance Maps of Paradise

Historian Alessandro Scafi on the four rivers of paradise, Calvin's mapping of Eden, and the first attempts to imagine heaven not on Earth

Medieval Mapping

Historian Alessandro Scafi on the Medieval knowledge about spherical form of the Earth, compass points on medieval maps, and role of history in mapping

Medieval Maps of Paradise

Historian Alessandro Scafi on the garden of Eden, Augustin's concept of creation, and the emergence of the term "Paradise"

Vikings: Raiding and Trading in the Middle Ages

Professor of German Studies Rudolf Simek on the Vikings' nomadic life, their cultural achievements, and the end of the Viking Age

Equestrian Statuette of Charlemagne

Historian Alexander Sidorov on the unique artifact of the Carolingian Renaissance — a mysterious statuette of a Frankish King in Louvre

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