Download or read book “A Pearl of Powerful Learning”: The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century written by Paul Knoll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's 2018 Oskar Halecki Award and Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2016 Book Prize In “A Pearl of Powerful Learning”, Paul W. Knoll provides a fully developed treatment of the institutional, social, and intellectual life of the University of Cracow, an important late medieval school.