Scholaster

{{Short description|Head of an ecclesiastical school}} A '''scholaster''', from the Latin ''scholasticus'' (schoolmaster), or '''magister scholarum''', was the head of an ecclesiastical school, typically a cathedral school, monastic school, or the school of a collegiate church, in medieval and early-modern Europe.<ref name=Selderhuis>Peter Nissen and William den Boer, "The Middle Ages after 1200", in ''Handbook of Dutch Church History'', edited by Herman Selderhuis (Göttingen, 2014), pp. 141–142.</ref> Depending on the size of the school and the status of the institution to which it was attached, the scholaster might be the only teacher, the head of a considerable educational establishment, or have oversight over all the schools in their city or territory.<ref>Barbara Helen Haggh, ''Music, Liturgy, and Ceremony in Brussels, 1350–1500'', vol. 1 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988), pp. 149–153.</ref> The scholaster might be a dignitary in a cathedral or collegiate chapter, alongside the provost, dean, cantor, succentor, precentor, archdeacon, treasurer, cellarer, sacristan or almoner.<ref>Anne Walters Robertson, ''Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 35, 140.</ref> It was not unknown for a scholaster to take the revenues of the post and deputise somebody else to carry out any teaching work involved.<ref name=Selderhuis/>

==See also== *{{sectionlink|Licentiate (degree)|History}}

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