[299] Probably 25,000 in England alone, including monks. Id. p. 204. [↑]
[300] Id. pp. 205–208, 213, 216. [↑]
[302] As to his anti-clericalism, cp. Gebhart, Orig. de la Renais., p. 71, and ref.; Owen, p. 113. [↑]
[303] Cp. Rashdall, Universities in the Middle Ages, i, 264. [↑]
[304] See the exposition of Owen, pp. 109–28. and refs. on p. 113. [↑]
[305] Renan, Averroès, p. 328. [↑]
[306] Méziéres, Pétrarque, 1868, p. 362. [↑]
[307] It is to be noted that in his opposition to the scholastics he had predecessors. Cp. Gebhart, Orig. de la Renais., p. 65. [↑]