About the book: 2014 / Student life is a hard time. Schoolchildren sometimes had to starve, and their backs were covered with scars from the blows with which knowledge of Latin grammar was hammered into them. Student life is a fun time. Members of university communities staged jester tests for new students, raided taverns and inns, visited gambling houses sometimes more often than classes, and sang frivolous poems based on church hymns. The thirst for knowledge and the desire to change places forced students to travel all over Europe. It happened that even entire universities were relocated if they did not get along with the local authorities. Ekaterina Glagoleva’s book tells why education was conducted in Latin, how the famous Sorbonne, Oxford and Cambridge arose today, who was the prototype of Doctor Faustus, how governments fought the “brain drain”, what faculties were considered the most prestigious and what sacrifices were made on the altar of science by its faithful adherents in the hope of seeing the truth. Age restrictions: 16+