ABOUT THE PROJECT

ACADEMIA is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC StG, no. 949710) led by the PI  Ota Pavlíček from the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. The project focuses on the history of European universities, in particular on quodlibets, the currently underresearched genre of debates which flourished at the Faculties of Arts of European universities from the 14th to the 17th century and which were the precursors of modern academic practice. 

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We are pleased to announce the upcoming 15th International BRRP Symposium, which will explore the intersection of the Bohemian Reformation and the academic world of medieval and early modern universities. The event is organised as part of the ACADEMIA project (ERC Grant Agreement No. 949710) at […]
The NOTA (Note-Taking and Notebooks as Channels of Medieval Academic Dissemination across Europe)project was selected for funding in the 2020 ERC Starting Grant competition. It proposed to study severalnotebooks pertaining to 14th- and 15th-century scholars from Europe and analyse their sources, note-taking practices, and academic backgrounds. […]
The first half of the fourteenth century in Oxford is widely recognized as a period of vibrant philosophical activity, marked by the emergence of novel doctrines and methods that challenged and reshaped Aristotelian natural philosophy. Yet this standard picture remains unevenly developed. While previous scholarship has […]

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Our Team

Meet the members of our research group TRIPTIC-EU  (Research Group for Transdisciplinary Investigation of Philosophical, Textual and Intellectual Culture in the Early Universities) at the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Science.

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