TY - JOUR AU - Spychala, Pauline PY - 2020/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Mobility of scholars and sciences between Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and France in the 14th–15th centuries: the contribution of prosopography to the history of sciences JF - Studia Historiae Scientiarum JA - Stud. Hist. Sci. VL - 19 IS - SE - SCIENCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE DO - 10.4467/2543702XSHS.20.008.12564 UR - https://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/article/view/7351 SP - 233-259 AB - <p>This article aims to trace the mobility of scholars and sciences between France and Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland in the 14th and 15th centuries, seen from the perspective of prosopography.</p><p>These exchanges were concentrated in only three oldest French universities of Montpellier, Orléans and Paris, albeit with significant variations, and in the newly-founded universities north of the Alps in the 14th century, namely those in Prague and Kraków.</p><p>Mobility was less important and intensive at the end of the Middle Ages because of the policy in favour of establishing national universities. The names of 143 scholars from Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland, who were enrolled in the 14th and 15th centuries in French universities, have been found so far. Several of them played important roles in the history of science in these countries.&nbsp;</p> ER -