Scholarly method#Scholars

Scholar ( from Latin scola: School ) was called a moving pupils or students or a cleric academically trained without the exchange and fixed position ( see also Vagant, Goliarde ). In the high and late medieval narrative literature scholars like to be shown as the epitome of frivolous seducer.

For the academic life of the scholars

The universities of medieval towns rented called hospicia (Latin for hotels ), apartments for master and scholars, to where the lectures were delivered. Furthermore, they provided loans to underprivileged scholars to the one to favor the long journey, and on the other to bind the debtor to the University and to restrict the free movement of students.

From the hospicia the time of Paris developed in the course starting the bursae. These were mostly living, dining and learning communities in which about 10-15 scholars lived under the guidance of Master in monastery -like seclusion. The inhabitants of the bursae were called bursarii. ( Since the 17th century, developed from the word bursarius the term boy as a general term for the students. Since the 18th century, a full member of a fraternity was called lad. )

In the bursae and the deposition was introduced. It was an initiation ceremony into the bursa in the disguise of the new Scholar, threatened, insulted, abused part and was eventually forced to make a confession, whereupon he finally absolution was granted to him to pay the entrance fee for the Burse as well as the imposed cost of a meal all Bursenmitglieder. Ceremonies of this type are still common in French universities and are increasingly ostracized and denounced.

During the pilgrimage to verdingten the scholars because they were the literate, often as a clerk at markets or fairs. That they might get too many knowledge of private affairs, whose criminal exploitation probably also contributed to the bad reputation of their profession.

Legal protection for scholars

1155, Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) a law to protect the Bolognese scholar, he in Roncaglia extended to all students and professors ( Habita ) 1158: You could no longer be held for the debts of their fellow countrymen.

The Scholar as a literary topos

In the song of the Franks by Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886), built in 1859 it says in the first stanza:

Which suggests that scholars were identified by the type of clothes and found her free life in retrospect a transfiguring, glorifying reinterpretation.