{"id":2012,"date":"2020-12-31T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:45:41","slug":"study-abroad-before-erasmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2020\/12\/31\/study-abroad-before-erasmus\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad Before Erasmus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the present benefits of study abroad (and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusprogramme.com\/\">Erasmus<\/a> programme in particular) are in the spotlight, it is worth considering a past example: a beautiful manuscript book copied and annotated by an English student at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferrara\">Ferrara<\/a> in 1460 where he was taking a break from his degree course at his home university to attend classes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhetoric\">in Latin rhetoric<\/a> taught there by the leading master of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book (now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/catalogues\/illuminatedmanuscripts\/record.asp?MSID=18792&amp;CollID=8&amp;NStart=2485\">British Library MS Harley 2485<\/a>) contained the texts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seneca_the_Younger\">Seneca the Younger<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senecan_tragedy#:~:text=Senecan%20tragedy%20refers%20to%20a,Medea\">Tragedies<\/a><\/em>, works especially valued by readers and writers with an enthusiasm for classical culture, as a template for the dramatic art and a treasury of ancient myth. Complete copies were rarely seen in England and it is no surprise that finding an exemplar was a priority for this student visitor on arrival in Italy. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Gunthorpe\">John Gunthorpe<\/a>, who had come to Ferrara directly after completing the arts course at Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"982\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2013\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/BL-MS-Harley-2485-982x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/BL-MS-Harley-2485-982x1024.jpg 982w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/BL-MS-Harley-2485-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/BL-MS-Harley-2485-768x801.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/BL-MS-Harley-2485.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BL MS Harley 2485<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"156\" data-id=\"2015\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2015\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Guarino da Verona, depicted in profile on a contemporary medal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His formal purpose was to follow the lecture course of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guarino_da_Verona\">Guarino da Verona<\/a>, Ferrara\u2019s most acclaimed professor, an authority both on classical Latin <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/auctor#Latin\">auctores<\/a><\/em> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persius\">Persius<\/a>, Seneca\u2019s contemporary and fellow stoic, and on Greek: at this date such expertise was scarce in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was another thirty years before the teaching of Greek was available to students within <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\">Cambridge<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Oxford\">Oxford<\/a>. Although Gunthorpe cannot have known it, this year was to be the last performance of Guarino\u2019s lectures. He died in the city on 14 December 1460.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"203\" data-id=\"2014\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/ChiostroFacoltaFarmaciaFerrara.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2014\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">University of Ferrara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>English students had pursued periods of study in the principal schools of mainland Europe from the first moment they had developed a settled pattern of teaching. Three quarters of a century before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Paris\">Paris<\/a> schools found formal recognition as a university (1215), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_of_Salisbury\">John of Salisbury<\/a> \u2013 then about the same age as Gunthorpe at Ferrara \u2013 had gone there to study theology under the celebrated master, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilbert_de_la_Porr%C3%A9e\">Gilbert of Poitiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As university institutions grew, their faculties formed and their syllabuses formalised, it became increasingly common for the English to travel in the course of their student careers. Like John of Salisbury in the twelfth century, as much as John Gunthorpe in the fifteenth century, generally they turned to the mainland at the end of their initial training in arts, to lay the foundations for advanced study, as postgraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The greater size, space and status of Paris in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries proved a powerful draw. For England\u2019s student monks and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canons_regular\">regular canons<\/a> there was also the compelling practical consideration that dedicated houses-of-study for members of their orders were established there long before they were set up at England\u2019s universities. Even after they acquired their own college at Oxford, the student monks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/vch\/kent\/vol2\/pp113-121\">Christ Church Priory, Canterbury<\/a> continued to take periods of study at Paris. There were Canterbury students there in the shadow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries\">Dissolution<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English students also responded to the European universities\u2019 disciplinary specialisation. If Paris was pre-eminent in theology, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Bologna\">Bologna<\/a> was the obvious destination for those intending to study in either of the laws, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canon_law#:~:text=In%20the%20Catholic%20Church%2C%20canon,the%20mission%20of%20the%20Church.\">canon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_law_(common_law)#:~:text=Civil%20law%20is%20a%20major,such%20as%20theft%20or%20vandalism).\">civil<\/a>. From the early fourteenth century English lawyers also spent time at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Orl%C3%A9ans\">Orl\u00e9ans<\/a>, the status of which was raised by the patronage of two canonist popes, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Boniface_VIII\">Boniface VIII<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Clement_V\">Clement V<\/a>. While the English crown governed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gascony\">Gascony<\/a>, students of the theology also passed through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Toulouse\">Toulouse<\/a>, the city where the presiding genius of their syllabus, the Angelic Doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Aquinas\">Thomas Aquinas<\/a>, lay buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"2018\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/Tomb-of-St.-Thomas-Aquinas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/Tomb-of-St.-Thomas-Aquinas.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/Tomb-of-St.-Thomas-Aquinas-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aquinas&#8217; tomb at Toulouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the middle years of the fifteenth century, the commitment of the northern Italian universities to a classicised curriculum attracted English students also to Ferrara, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Florence\">Florence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Padua\">Padua<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Pavia\">Pavia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Siena\">Siena<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The typical periods of undergraduate and postgraduate study were lengthy, and, to fulfil the formal degree requirements might take as much as fifteen years. It followed then that the time spent in study abroad was rarely less than one academic year. By the fifteenth century English students stayed in the academic communities at Bologna long enough to be chosen to be rector of their constituency of scholars which were organised into national groups, called \u2018nations\u2019. Gunthorpe cut short his time at Ferrara only because of Guarino\u2019s death; he remained at his studies in Italy for another five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their continuing institutional development, and the rise within them of self-governing college foundations, the late medieval universities remained receptive to such international student traffic. There can be no doubt that the opportunity was dependent on the means of the individual: after Ferrara Gunthorpe continued his studies in Italy because he found employment in the papacy and, ultimately, secured the valuable preferment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaplain_of_His_Holiness\">papal chaplaincy<\/a>. Those Englishmen known to have stayed at European universities long enough to have held rectorships were from well-funded gentry families: Reynold Chichele, Ferrara\u2019s rector of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ultramontane\">Ultramontane<\/a> scholars in 1448-9, was no less than the great-nephew of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Chichele\">archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it may be that it was gainful employment rather than the advantages of birth that was the passport to study abroad. It was possible for the least well-connected clerks, those at the opposite end of the career track to Rector Reynold, to aspire to be a visiting student. As the incumbent of a parish benefice, they might apply for a licence to absent themselves for a period of years to study at a university or another <em>studium <\/em>supported by the income of their own living. Ralph Hyckys, rector of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Calstock\">Calstock<\/a> (Cornwall), received licence in 1435 for a two-year leave of absence to pursue his studies in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canon_law#:~:text=In%20the%20Catholic%20Church%2C%20canon,the%20mission%20of%20the%20Church.\">canon law<\/a> at Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" data-id=\"2017\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2020\/12\/St_Andrews_Church_in_Calstock-2048x1371.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St Andrew&#8217;s Church, Calstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The return on such investment in study abroad was both intellectual \u2013 as Gunthorpe\u2019s book bears witness \u2013 and professional. After his years of study in Italy he soon picked up royal patronage; in 1466 he was appointed chaplain to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_IV_of_England\">Edward IV<\/a>; he then served as his almoner and under his brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_III_of_England\">Richard III<\/a>, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lord_Privy_Seal\">Keeper of the Privy Seal<\/a>. He was not displaced at the Tudor succession and in 1485 he was appointed dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wells_Cathedral\">Wells Cathedral<\/a>. Ralph Hyckys also found his own reward for his perseverance at canon law, securing a second parish church living at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillack\">Phillack<\/a> in the far west of the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">James Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the present benefits of study abroad (and the Erasmus programme in particular) are in the spotlight, it is worth considering a past example: a beautiful manuscript book copied and annotated by an English student at Ferrara in 1460 where he was taking a break from his degree course at his home university to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[627,629],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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