MANAGING THE UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Abstract

The article studies the formation process of executive bodies and administrative officials in the European universities in the Middle Ages. The author analyses the managing bodies’ organization in the universities of Bologna and Paris which served as the models for other higher educational institutions and reveals the distinctive features of management in English and German universities in the XII–XV centuries. There are also de- fined and examined the managing functions of the rector, chancellor, deans, bulldogs, professors and collegial bodies like boards and councils.