Here's an instance at the University of Paris of students behaving as hooligans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1229_University_of_Paris_strike https://en.wikipe

Here's an instance at the University of Paris of students behaving as hooligans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1229_University_of_Paris_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1229_University_of_Paris_strik... And these guys kinda sorta originated as students (student clergy mainly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliards And in general the students had a lot of power https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/89561/j.2164-4918.1968.tb03142.x.pdf https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/8956... (this PDF has a lot of examples): > Both students and faculty enjoyed a number of privileges from the state in the Middle Ages. Most of them were not new. From pre-Christian Greece, teachers and students had been free from taxation, free from military service, and in many places free from arrest and trial by civil authorities (Norton, 1909). > But these privileges did not automatically come to students and faculty. It was because they did not enjoy the same protection as citizens of Bologna that the foreign students organized themselves into nations. When they gained power, the students were almost insatiable in their demands. > The townspeople were cowed by the students and the professors, both of whom used the migration as a threat to force compliance with their wishes. Threats by students and faculty to move to another city were by no means hollow. Migrations were quite common during the Middle Ages. Most of the major universities of Europe were begun or developed by professors and students who had become unhappy at Bologna or Paris. An earlier incident at Paris: > In 1200 a battle in a tavern at Paris resulted in several students being slain by police. The king, fearing the students would migrate, condemned the police and ordered the burning of the homes of the citizens who had fought the students. He also decreed that in the future police must hand students over to the church for punishment, and required that Parisians take an oath not to harm students and to report anyone seen harming a student.