Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, The Strongest

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Tim Blackmore

Document Summary

12th century renaissance: a move beyond already entrenched forms of knowledge (via the church: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry) informed by movement of peoples, the growth of the learned professions grew in centers of material trade: The meeting point of the chief routes of communication in northern italy. (11) Universitas" denotes only the totality of a group haskins 23. In italy: focused on medicine in salerno and law in bologna. A universitas of students: growth of a student class: sons of nobility or growing merchant class students leveraged their collective power over a town, - town versus gown conflicts and formed guilds". Professors at mercy of students: had to secure a regular audience of five, couldn"t leave town, not allowed to skip or change material, worked on a fee per lecture basis. Professors also formed guilds requiring admission : license to teach" earliest degrees.