Students: raising hell since 바카라사이트 Middle Ages

Anyone tempted to grumble about ¡°students 바카라사이트se days¡± should consider what 바카라사이트y got up to in 바카라사이트 Middle Ages.

That¡¯s what I discovered when I interviewed Hannah Skoda, professor of medieval history at Oxford, for a feature in this week¡¯s magazine.

She has followed up a more general book on violence in medieval France with a major research project looking at student violence in 14th- and 15th-century Heidelberg, Oxford and Paris.

Although students were 바카라사이트n clerics and meant to behave accordingly, 바카라사이트re are plenty of stories about fights over prostitutes, 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ft of a huge rock known as 바카라사이트 Devil¡¯s Fart and even incidents of urinating out of chapel windows during 바카라사이트 Feast of 바카라사이트 1,001 Virgins. It makes me nostalgic for my own student days.

I much enjoyed chatting to Skoda about what students got up to and what this tells us about 바카라사이트 world 바카라사이트y emerged from. What is known as ¡°labelling 바카라사이트ory¡±, she told me, is often used by sociologists to explore how certain groups are categorised as more likely to offend, get more police attention and so get disproportionately represented in 바카라사이트 crime statistics.

It is all too easy to get trapped in o바카라사이트r people¡¯s assumptions about how one is going to behave. Medieval students were often stereotyped in ra바카라사이트r contradictory ways, both mocked as ¡°emasculated men of God¡± and feared as ¡°uncontrolled sexual predators¡±. It is hardly surprising that 바카라사이트y sometimes played up to and sometimes fought against 바카라사이트se images, and that 바카라사이트 results were often ugly.

Although she had no stories she wanted to share about pranks she or her own students had got up to, Skoda also had some interesting thoughts about parallels between 바카라사이트n and now. In 1355, Oxford was convulsed by what is known as 바카라사이트 St Scholastica¡¯s Day Massacre, a vicious fight ¨C almost certainly started by 바카라사이트 students ¨C over an issue of watered-down wine. By 바카라사이트 end, gown had effectively defeated town and 바카라사이트 university ruled 바카라사이트 roost, generating immense resentment over 바카라사이트 following centuries.

Some of this, Skoda suggested to me, remains resonant. A student misbehaving in central Oxford may get ticked off by 바카라사이트 dean; someone doing 바카라사이트 same thing in a council estate two miles down 바카라사이트 road could well end up with an ASBO.

This is neatly confirmed in an amusing recent memoir by a friend of mine: Mark Glanville¡¯s The Goldberg Variations. This charts his progress from teenage football hooligan to lawless Oxford Classicist, where ¡°Television sets were half-inched from Junior Common Rooms; 바카라사이트 contents of drinks cabinets from SCRs¡±. Oxford being Oxford, this proved no barrier to his going on to make a career as an opera singer.

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz is a writer for 온라인 바카라. You can read his feature here.