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| From | Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: What's the oldest modern example of the "wizard school" subgenre? |
| Date | 2016-09-17 13:26 -0500 |
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"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> writes:
> Which reminds me that Lord Darcy's assistant, Sean, goes to technical
> conferences on magical research, which include presentation of papers
> (including pre-prints) and academic rivalries.
>
> To the best of my recollection, no schools were specifically mentioned,
> but the existence of the conferences at least implies the existence of
> schools where magic is not only taught, but researched.
IIRC, there was at least one mention of a university where magic is
taught. From "The Ipswitch Phial":
"Your pardon, Mission Commander, but just how certain are you that the
man you saw on the mule this morning was actually Master Sean?"
"Quite certain. I heard him lecture many times at the University at
Buda-Pest when I was an undergraduate there in 'sixty-eight,
'sixty-nine, and 'seventy. He was taking his Th.D. in theoretics and
analog math. His King paid for it from the Privy Purse, but he
supplemented his income by giving undergrad lectures."
"Would he recognize you?"
"Highly unlikely. Who pays any attention to undergraduate students at a
large university?"
...
Master Sean suddenly snapped his fingers. "That's where I heard the
name before! Olga Polovski! Six years ago, she was an undergraduate at
the University in Buda-Pest. A good student, with high-grade Talent.
And from "The Napoli Express":
"Sean!" the Praefect grabbed him by both shoulders. "It's been a long
time! You should write more often." He turned to Lord Darcy. "Pardon
me, Padre, but I haven't seen my friend here since we took a course
together at the University of Milano, five years ago. 'The
Admissibility of Certain Magically Derived Evidence in Criminal
Jurisprudence' it was."
although that's more of a class on magic as it relates to forensic
science practice in the Darcyverse.
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