Published: 2021-12-03

Wawrzyniec of Słupca’s Bologna Doctorate in Law (1517)

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Abstract

Stanisław Sroka’s article presents the career of (Lawrence) of Słupca, with particular emphasis on his obtaining a doctorate in canon law in Bologna in 1517. The Bologna doctorate opened a way for Wawrzyniec to a university career, because earlier he was a public notary and he also accepted the minor orders (acolyte). In 1521, he became a member of the law college of the University of Kraków. He also obtained church benefices in the form of the Kielce scholastery (scholasteria) and the Sandomierz canonry. Due to his imminent death in 1528, the university career of Wawrzyniec of Słupca was short. During the doctoral exam, he was accompanied in Bologna by his fellow students or other Poles who were there at the time and wanted to witness the doctoral proceedings. This group included: Jan Rybieński, provost of Kruszwica and canon of Gniezno and Poznań, Jan Łącki, canon of Poznań, as well as Jan Międzyrzecki, Jan Łaski, Maciej Śliwnicki and Stanisław Szczawiński. In the sources at the University of Bologna, they were referred to as students of Bologna and seminarians of the Dioceses of Gniezno, Poznań and Olomouc. Sroka discusses their intellectual paths, often omitted in historiography, and briefly describes their subsequent careers.

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Sroka, S. A. (2021). Wawrzyniec of Słupca’s Bologna Doctorate in Law (1517). Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 13, 220–240. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2021.17.10

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Vol. 13 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-03


ISSN: 2080-492X
eISSN: 2353-9720

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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