HTCCBWC Ch 4 Study questions
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  1. Name the 4 earliest universities that developed in the middle ages. In what century did they develop?


  1. What central role did the papacy play in fostering universities? How many chartered universities existed at the beginning of Protestant Reformation (1517)? How many were chartered by the papacy?


  1. What advantage did a papally chartered university have over a nationally chartered one?


  1. What does the Latin phrase 'ius ubique docendi' mean?
    (you may google for answer)


  1. What kind of treatment did university students and professors often receive from the townspeople where their university was located? How did the pope help to alleviate their treatment?


  1. What did the papal bull Parens Scientiarum grant? To which university was it directed? (you may google answer)


  1. Who wrote the most famous and widely used logic text of the middle ages? What office did he hold in the Church?


  1. What were the 2 intellectual tools used by the Scholastics to address issues of intellectual interest?


  1. What is the ‘ontological argument’ for the existence of God? Who developed it?
    (you may google answer)


  1. Who was the greatest of the Scholastics? For what work is he most famous? When did he live?


  1. Using the principle of ‘sufficient reason,’ what logical argument for the existence of God did St. Thomas Aquinas develop?





Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX