Going to university these days isn't as difficult as it was back when they had only begun. There weren't a lot of places where universities could be found and most people who wanted to go to university had to travel far and wide, leaving their families and relatives to pursue higher education, unlike today wherein we have all sorts of transportation systems that make it possible even to study abroad. During the medieval days of universities, such luxuries were nowhere to be found. And so, we can only surmise how it must have felt for students and their families back then. A few letters survive from that time, and Elena Rossi, who is a PhD student researching about medieval women in university networks, gives us a few insights into what medieval students' relationships with their families were like.
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