First published in 1895 and here revised and annotated, the late Hastings Rashdall's monumental study of medieval universities includes an in-depth examination of the three great archetypal universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford.
Hastings Rashdall was an English philosopher, theologian, historian, and Anglican priest. He expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism, and he was a major historian of the universities of the Middle Ages.