ABSTRACT
It must be remembered that some universities ceased to operate during this period and that some universities had already disappeared before 1390. Nevertheless, they formed themselves into colleges of doctors, who examined candidates and awarded degrees: the examining board and the teaching faculty were not always the same body of men. Thus the University of Paris had four nations France, Picardy, Normandy and England the last including students from central and northern Europe, while Prague's four nations were for Czechs, Poles, Bavarians and Saxons. The emphasis here is on teachers of theology and of Greek and Latin grammar; there is no attempt to account for the careers of eminent teachers of law or medicine. Juan Luis Vives Born in Valencia of conversa parents and educated at the College de Montaigu, Paris, Vives reacted against the Parisian educational establishment in the same way as Erasmus. Moving to Bruges, he became tutor to Guillaume de Croy who was briefly archbishop of Toledo.
