Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Genealogical tables
- Introduction
- Part I Means of communication
- Part II Indirect channels of communication
- Part III Settlers in the Regno
- Part IV Cultural and political impacts
- 10 Royal ideology: the saintly family
- 11 Religious politics and practices
- 12 The universities of Naples and Paris
- 13 Medicine and science
- 14 Law
- 15 Administrative practices
- 16 Navy and army
- 17 Literature
- Epilogue: spurs to remembering
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
12 - The universities of Naples and Paris
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Genealogical tables
- Introduction
- Part I Means of communication
- Part II Indirect channels of communication
- Part III Settlers in the Regno
- Part IV Cultural and political impacts
- 10 Royal ideology: the saintly family
- 11 Religious politics and practices
- 12 The universities of Naples and Paris
- 13 Medicine and science
- 14 Law
- 15 Administrative practices
- 16 Navy and army
- 17 Literature
- Epilogue: spurs to remembering
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Frederick II rightly gains the credit among historians for the foundation of the university of Naples in 1224, with its vocational structure and its close linkage to the royal court. These features marked it out from all other thirteenth-century studia generalia. The emperor conceived it as a training ground for the Roman lawyers and physicians who were needed to keep his administration going. Its brightest graduates could all aspire to employment at court, whether temporary or permanent. From the start the university bore his stamp on all its doings. Yet because Naples was a pro-Guelf city, for the latter part of Frederick's reign and in the reign of Manfred the university fell into the doldrums (although King Manfred is known to have been present at a disputation held by Master Peter of Ireland at the royal court). Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Regno and his rapid development of what Frederick had begun made a considerable difference to its fortunes. Under his assiduous patronage, scholars were recruited from across the Regno and beyond (Charles himself may even have been responsible for having Thomas Aquinas sent to Naples in 1272); masters were paid for from the royal treasury; examinations were conducted under the eyes of royal servants; licences to practise medicine or law were granted by the king; student privileges were carefully protected. In 1294, Charles II nominated the chancellor of the Regno as ex officio rector, head of the university.
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- The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305 , pp. 214 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011