University of Paris

Like alternative medieval universities (Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge, Padua), the University of Paris was well established by the time it had been formally based by the church in 1200. The earliest historical regard to the university per se is found in Matthew of Paris' regard to the studies of his own teacher (an superior of St. Albans) and his acceptance into "the fellowship of the elect Masters" at the university of Paris in concerning 1170. in addition, it's illustrious that Pope Holy Father had completed his studies at the University of Paris by 1182 at the age of twenty one. The university developed as a company round the Notre Dame Cathedral, almost like alternative medieval companies, like guilds of merchants or artisans. The Medieval Latin term, universitas, had the additional general that means of a gild. The university of Paris was referred to as a universitas magistrorum et scholarium (a gild of masters and scholars), in distinction with the Bolognese universitas scholarium.

The university had four faculties: Arts, Medicine, Law, and Theology. the school of Arts was very cheap in rank, however additionally the most important, as students had to graduate there so as to be admitted to 1 of the upper colleges. the scholars were divided into four nationes in keeping with language or regional origin: France, Normandy, Picardy, and European nation. The last came to be referred to as the Alemannian (German) nation. accomplishment to every nation was wider than the names may imply: the English-German nation enclosed students from Scandinavia and jap Europe.

The faculty and nation system of the University of Paris (along therewith of the University of Bologna) became the model for all later medieval universities. below the governance of the Church, students wore robes and smooth-shaven the ace of their heads in tonsure, to indicate they were below the protection of the church. Students followed the foundations and laws of the Church and weren't subject to the king's laws or courts. This given issues for the town of Paris, as students ran wild, and its official had to charm to Church courts for justice. Students were usually terribly young, coming into the college at age thirteen or fourteen and staying for six to twelve years.