Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1959 The Mutilated Knight (5)

The meal that the school entertained Georgeanna at noon was Rouen’s local delicacies, Rouen-style pigeons and mullet cakes, and a bottle of apple brandy, which can be called an ordinary meal at Hogwarts University of Rouen. But the students ate very happily, just like a holiday. They were sitting at rows of tables. They didn't have meals in separate courtyards like a magic school. Instead, three or five friends gathered together, chatting and eating.

  However, regardless of the chef's skill, it is estimated that it is difficult for anyone to have an appetite to eat in this place-the wooden courtyard of this two-story building is full of skeletons.

There are skulls, leg bones, and death statues of underage children on beams, window frames, corridors, and arcades. All the wood is painted black, even if there are occasional Virgins and Sons. The sculpture does not play any role, it is full of the breath of death.

In fact, this place was the largest public parish cemetery in Rouen as early as 1253. When the Black Death swept Europe in the 14th century, Rouen was not spared. At the beginning, people were buried, and then quickly cremated the dead. The north wing of this courtyard It was originally planned to put the ashes of the black dead patients, but the attic was not repaired, and a large number of the dead were sent back, so that it became a morgue.

In order to reduce the risk of infection, people dug a pit in the yard. Regardless of men, women, young and old, the corpses that will not be cremated in the future are buried in it. That is to say, anyone who digs with a **** may dig bones, so a new greenhouse was built. I moved to the Academy of Fine Arts next door.

  That was the case in that era. Didn’t Leonardo dissected a lot of corpses? Art and corpses are almost the same. Before they became famous, many painters were very poor. They also had to buy paints to paint. Their stretched life forced them to rent a house next to this cemetery. Later, someone offered art teaching courses. Only one became famous in 1741. The painter returned to fund the establishment of the Rouen Academy of Fine Arts, and it became the "University in the Cemetery" (Uneécoledansuncimetière).

  These painters have a "sense of humor". There is a print called "Dance of Death". Two skeletons hold the hand of the Pope and sing and dance. This is a colored engraving. The pope looked sad, and the two skeletons "laughed" very happily.

If anyone has nothing to do, look closely at the skulls and you will find that they all have a "smile". The wood carvings on the pillars have removed the mandibles, so that the skulls have no smile, plus the crossed leg bones. It looks like a pirate flag, with crossed sickles and shovel engraved underneath, representing the **** of death ankou in Breton mythology. He will collect the souls of the dead from the tombs and put them Take it to the underworld.

This **** of death is not full-time like Hades. The person who died last in the calendar year of each region will be called Ankou in the coming year. If a lot of people died that year, then this Ankou is particularly evil. It was a farmer who died last year before the outbreak of the Black Death in Rouen, so the sickle and shovel became the symbol of this Ankou.

  It is estimated that about 10,000 people were buried here that year. Under each of the big trees in the yard was a big grave. During the French Revolution, this place was used as a revolutionary club and a textile workshop.

   About the middle of the 17th century, a priest recruited children from impoverished families and opened a school here. Houses were built in the south wing of the yard to serve as school buildings and residences. Later, the enrollment of students was expanded, and the two-story buildings on both sides were formed.

  Higher education reform during the Great Revolution is also an important aspect. University universitas or collegium means guilds in Latin. Guilds are usually called associations, and guilds exercise internal autonomy. However, the difference between university guilds and handicraft guilds lies in their intellectual life, and each city has its own style.

For example, the University of Paris gave birth to the "Mister University". Teachers speak on stage and students listen below. Italy is a "Student University". Galileo and others give lectures in Padua. If they speak well, not only will the audience be full, but also There are still people paying.

The "Student University" model is very unfamiliar to countries such as Scotland, England, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, etc., because they are the continuation of the "Mr. University" model of the University of Paris. Teachers represent the authority, and the salary of teachers is also determined by the school. Yes, in Padua, students decide the salary of teachers, and even the selection of professors, tuition, semesters and teaching hours are also decided by IOU students.

  Close school is a big deal for Hogwarts students, because they are a group of teenagers. The school was closed when Newton was studying in London. It was also because of the plague. The University of Rouen was closed because of the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1791, the National Assembly passed a decree to abolish all social organizations in the country because "a truly free country does not allow Any closed group is independent.” Since the school was opened by the church at that time, the decree also cancelled the legality of the church’s open school, and then the University of Rouen was closed.

  What kind of education was done during the Great Revolution? All came out, and until Napoleon took office in 1799, he attached great importance to education, but he paid attention to science and engineering, and the Paris Polytechnic Institute received a lot of care. No one cares about universities like the University of Rouen, which are far from the capital and located in remote areas. It is even illegal for these students to stay here, because according to the education law: no secondary school is allowed to open without government permission In principle, higher education institutions are opened by the state, because education is a state function.

  Poor students are so poor that they have no place to live. The factory owner who used to run the textile factory gave them the place. Anyway, no workers are willing to go to this ghost place.

  The medieval university made up of scholars must resist external pressure. The church has implemented a cultural monopoly, exerting an effort to influence the university in an attempt to enlist it in its own sect.

  The royal power and the local government will also see the benefits brought to them by the university, and compete with the church for the control of the university.

This involves the secularization and academicization of the university. The biggest difference between Slughorn and Professor Snape is also true. Snape is academic, and his improved wolf poison potion works, but it is expensive. It cannot bring profits to drug companies. As for Slughorn, he had a display stand with his proud protégés. If Voldemort didn't go crazy later, he would be the brightest star on the display stand.

In the process of university secularization, it is inevitable to cooperate with local enterprises, but secularization and vulgarization are not a concept. Rather than donating money, the principal hopes that Georgian can help him apply for the school's charter, so that members of the Rouen Chamber of Commerce We can donate money without worry.

  The principal may have lived in a closed country for too long. He didn't know that the concession was cancelled now.

  She really wanted Bonaparte to come here to see what effect he had caused by waiving tuition fees at the École des Écos de Paris. Those students who were studying in Paris were of course happy. Medical students in the Middle Ages had to pay for their own tuition, and nobles also regarded sponsors as universities as a way to win over the hearts of the people.

In the past, to be a doctor, you had to go to the art school. In 1781, the next door art school closed down, and the medical school moved the teaching building there. The place where you live can only be a few hundred years old wooden building. .

  But she estimated that he would be indifferent. Medicine is also divided into internal medicine and surgery. He supports surgeons because surgeons are very useful on the battlefield. He does not believe in internal medicine, just like he does not believe in lawyers.

  She really realized that a lot of knowledge can be gained at one time. Josephine would never come to such a place when he died. She was even afraid of the ghost of Marie Antoinette, let alone this kind of school.

  Flier looked calm, Figl had been on the battlefield, and performed well, Margaret was a little bit eager to cry.

  This is actually nothing terrible. There are more dead people buried in the Catacombs of Paris. Of course, she may not know, but she won’t be afraid if she doesn’t know.

  If you smell it carefully, there is still a strong smell of corpses in this wooden house. After all, there are tens of thousands of people rotting in the yard next door, but she doesn't want to cover it up with the fragrance.

  She was cutting the pigeon on the plate while chatting and laughing with the principal.

  The children in the audience must be very curious about what they are talking about.

  What else can we talk about?

  Anyway, this place is not well-traveled and there are trees everywhere. Luc likes building buildings so much, so he asked him to build one. Someone spends on buying jewellery, she spends on doing it, no matter if the cultivation is successful or not, she wants to find something for the children, just like she used to let the maids of the Grand Trianon to copy books. .

  　 The dance of death = the head of the grave

  (End of this chapter)