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St. Andrews University 345
extensive repairs were being carried out on the woodwork of the
and the Bishop may also have been preparing for the
cathedral, 1
erection of the new parish church, which is almost exactly the
same age as the University.
In the matter of buildings St. Andrews was no worse off than
many other mediaeval universities. For a long time the University
of Paris had no home of its own. Each Master was at liberty to
teach where he pleased. When a Nation or a faculty found it
necessary to deliberate about something it met in the cloister, or
in the refectory, of a convent. Larger assemblies were held in a
church. 2 The same thing happened at St. Andrews. The
Masters opened halls or pedagogies in different parts of the town.
The Faculty of Arts met seventeen times between 1414 and 1432,
*
apud Sanctum Leonardum,' most likely
in the church. It also
met in other places until it was provided with a house of its own.
The more solemn meetings of the whole University were held in
the refectory of the Priory, where the papal bulls were first read,
and the Rector was usually elected there.
That the University of St. Andrews justified its existence from
the first is not open to question. It may not have grown so
phenomenally as Boece's phrase c
lead one to suppose. On the other hand,
excrevit in immensum' might
it would not be fair to
measure the number of its students by the modest lists of graduates
in Arts that have survived. For one it
thing, stopped the flow
of Scottish students to foreign countries. Before St. Andrews
the schism had been
University was ten years old, although
healed, the Scottish student had disappeared from Paris. This is
vouched for by the learned editors of the Auctarium, who say
(vol. ii. p. v.) :
*
Scoti omnes circa an. 1420 urbem deseruerunt,
excepto uno Rogero de Edinburg, qui ipse an. 1429 ultimus
Scotus defunctus est.'
The story of the last years of the great papal schism as it
affected Scotland has still to be written. This is not to be
wondered at, as until lately printed sources of information were
very limited, and the subject is one which does not perhaps attract
many students of history. A good deal of the necessary information
must still be sought for in the Vatican or other archives, but
with a little research to
enough has been printed to enable anyone
supplement very considerably the narrative of the Scotichronicon?
1
Scotichronicon, 1. vi. c. Iv.
J
Liard, L'Universite de Paris, p.
1 1.
3 In spite of a few minor errors of fact and date, Mr. A. Francis Steuart's paper
on ' Scotland and the Papacy during the Great Schism,' in the Scottish Historical