William J. Courtenay is the C. H. Haskins Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Parisian Scholars in Early Fourteenth Century (1999) and a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy.

• 1. The making of a privileged class; 2. The making of a magisterial elite; 3. The topography of Parisian theological teaching in the twelfth century; 4. From magistri to magisterium, 1200–1240; 5. The exercise of magisterial authority in the 1240s; 6. The growth and self-awareness of magisterial authority, 1250–1290; 7. Policing their own: judicial proceedings within the mendicant orders; 8. Philip the Fair and the University of Paris, 1285–1303; 9. Philip the Fair and the University of Paris, 1303–1314; 10. The papal countermove: the rotulus of 1316; 11. Philip VI and the papacy; 12. Judging and being judged: magisterial authority under papal oversight; 13. The return of magisterial jurisdiction to Paris, 1342–1390.

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