@karchie @cstross If you can print books!
Charlie starts off with cod-medieval; they can't print books. They can't make paper for books, either, your book production limitations include "grazing land".
You could get a whole series of books over stealing the (especially good) exemplar shiny rock a rival university uses to teach people how to make their own shiny rocks. You could get "this is insane" plot lines by looking up the history of theft of saint's relics, too.