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> .. reform I advocate entails a disciplined reflection on the sort of thing the university has become, compared to the #CommunityOfScholars in the historical circumstances that first established it... How and why did this new form arise out of the monastic cloister in the thirteenth century?.. that also gave birth to the contractual movement of citizens into towns, and the uniquely European notion of peasantry? This moment also inaugurated the great age of pilgrimage, the new free fraternities and mendicant orders, consensual marriage.
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