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Student Life in Ave Maria College, Mediaeval Paris, by Astrik L. Gabriel. 460 pp. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. $6.75

John of Hubant, a cleric and royal counselor, founded little Ave Maria College in 1336, hard by the great abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris. With a master, chaplain and six students (eventually they increased to eight), the college endured until 1769. Until the publication of Professor Gabriel’s thorough history, this college has had scarcely more than bare mention in the books on medieval learning. The present volume includes the College’s Chartulary, in Latin, and is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the ends and methods of Christian education in the late Middle Ages.

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Student Life in Ave Maria College, Mediaeval Paris, by Astrik L. Gabriel. 460 pp. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. $6.75

John of Hubant, a cleric and royal counselor, founded little Ave Maria College in 1336, hard by the great abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris. With a master, chaplain and six students (eventually they increased to eight), the college endured until 1769. Until the publication of Professor Gabriel’s thorough history, this college has had scarcely more than bare mention in the books on medieval learning. The present volume includes the College’s Chartulary, in Latin, and is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the ends and methods of Christian education in the late Middle Ages.