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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KRAKÓW IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. SKETCH FOR A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT

This article presents the environment of the masters operating at the University of Krakow in the first half of the fifteenth century. First, it discusses a group of Prague scholars, led by Stanisław of Skarbimierz, who organised a four-faculty university in Krakow, founded by Władysław Jagiełło in 1400. It then discusses the masters who lectured at the individual faculties until the middle of the fifteenth century. Around seventy masters lectured at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, fifteen doctors and bachelors at the Faculty of Medicine, thirty eight doctors and bachelors of canon law at the Faculty of Law, and thirty seven doctors and thirty two bachelors at the Faculty of Theology. They established the university’s intellectual legacy in Krakow, and then intensively cultivated the philosophy of nature, the philosophy of morality and the philosophy of existence, as well as astronomy and the law of nations (ius gentium). In theology, they dealt with issues of church reform in capite et in membris, the sacraments, the Hussite movement, and moral and pastoral issues. The achievements of these masters from the first half of the fifteenth century made the University of Krakow one of the most important intellectual centres in Central and Eastern Europe.