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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ERC ACADEMIA participated in the organisation and the programme of the traditional Summer School on Reading Medieval Manuscripts. Papers by ERC ACADEMIA members included Maximilian Schuh’s presentation on Weather in late medieval manuscripts. Evidence from 14th-century Oxford and Ota Pavlíček’s presentation on Reconsidering Arts Quodlibetal Debates: Insights from Newly […]
On September 11, 2025, Dr. Maximilian Schuh presented an editorial research project on De prognosticatione aeris by the Oxford scholar William Merle (†1347). Largely neglected by previous scholarship, this tract on weather prediction departs from traditional medieval astro-meteorological approaches by emphasising the systematic observation of natural […]
Dr. Maximilian Schuh, photo by Jana Říhová
Since August 2025, Dr. Maximilian Schuh from Freie Universität Berlin has been a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Over the next three years, he will spend a total of 18 months as part of the Triptic-EU research […]

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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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