Medievalists.net » Pope John XXII http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The King’s Mercy. An Attribute of Later Medieval English Monarchy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/the-kings-mercy-an-attribute-of-later-medieval-english-monarchy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/the-kings-mercy-an-attribute-of-later-medieval-english-monarchy/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:42:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35524 Modern assumptions about medieval justice still tend to see this process of amelioration as merely occasional and exceptional: mercy needed to be applied only where special circumstances made it inappropriate to apply the full rigours of the law. This, however, is seriously to misunderstand both the purpose and the pervasiveness of mercy in the operation of medieval justice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/motivations-and-response-to-crusades-in-the-aegean-c-1300-1350/feed/ 0 Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/education-and-curricula-in-early-universities-some-documentary-evidence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/education-and-curricula-in-early-universities-some-documentary-evidence/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:36:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24275 Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence Nicolay V. TSAREVSKY (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Chemistry Education, Vol.14:5 (2005) Abstract Several European documents dating from as early as 13th Century (including laws, papal Bulls, and University records) are cited demonstrating that the importance of the syllabus or organized […]

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