scholar

The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. It is the methods that systemically advance the teaching, research, and practice of a given scholarly or academic field of study through rigorous inquiry. Scholarship is noted by its significance to its particular profession, and is creative, can be documented, can be replicated or elaborated, and can be and is peer-reviewed through various methods.

Scholar (von lateinisch scola: Schule) nannte man einen fahrenden Schüler oder Studenten oder einen akademisch gebildeten Kleriker ohne Amt und feste Stellung (siehe auch Vaganten, Goliarden). In der hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Erzählliteratur werden Scholaren gern als Inbegriff des leichtlebigen Verführers dargestellt.