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- ↑ Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200 - 1400, J.M.M.H. Thijssen, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, pg. 70.
- ↑ Ockham and Ockhamism: Studies in the dissemination and impact of his thought, William J. Courtenay, Brill Publishers, 2008, pg. 173.
- ↑ Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, pg. 71.
- ↑ The First Universities: Stadium generale and the origins of university education in Europe, Olaf Pedersen, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pg. 245.