The most celebrated architect in France, Jean Nouvel, and a collaborator, François Fontès, introduced their blue and cube-like city hall in November, and early next year Mr. Nouvel's RBC Design Center — another coolly modernist structure that will house the RBC brand's furniture showroom — is to open its doors in this medieval, student-filled Mediterranean city.
Euclid's fifth proposition in the first book of his Elements (that the base angles in an isosceles triangle are equal) may have been named the Bridge of Asses (Latin: Pons Asinorum) for medieval students who, clearly not destined to cross over into more abstract mathematics, had difficulty understanding the proof or even the need for the proof.
1140), the unofficial collection of canons that became the fundamental textbook for medieval students of canon law, laid great emphasis on the primacy of the Roman see, accepting as genuine certain canons that were based on long-standing tradition but were actually the work of 8th- and 9th-century forgers.
2. One must remember that Aristotle and his medieval students lived in periods of time well before organ transplants were even conceivable.
Frances Eustace, MA medieval studies student, University of Bristol I'm taking a two-year, part-time course including compulsory core elements, three options and final dissertation.
A second-year medieval languages student at the university, who did not want to be named, said: "Our relationship with our universities has changed as a result of the tuition fees hike.
50 years ago to the day, a 20 year-old history, Arabic and medieval Spanish student at King's College, Cambridge, lit a rocket under the musical establishment, and he's spent the last half-century continuing to shock and awe, agitate and enlighten, entertain and energise audiences and performers all over the world - but mostly, and most importantly, in the UK ever since.
This intense focus on Aristotelian texts, especially logic, was useful, providing medieval university students with a common vocabulary and similar approaches to argumentation.
In fact, late medieval university students encountered these subjects through the textbook tradition, usually Peter of Spain's Summule logicales (Little Logicals).
For example, when I teach my class on medieval architecture, students are surprised to learn that the two oldest continuously run universities in the world are in North Africa (in Fez - a city in Morocco - and Cairo).
