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3 - The University of Paris during Calvin’s Life

from Part I - France and Its Influence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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The university was a medieval invention and therefore a very medieval institution. Its very name, as Hastings Rashdall explained, grew out of the word universitas, which denoted both “an aggregate of persons,” and a “legal corporation.”1 The University of Paris, like the other early university, the University of Bologna, emerged at the end of the twelfth century and reflected the flowering of culture and learning of the 12th Century Renaissance.2 While Bologna came to be known for its Faculty of Law, Paris emerged as the “archetypal” University in the Faculties of Arts and Theology.

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Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Paul, F. Grendler, “The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation,” Renaissance Quarterly 57:1 (Spring 2004), 142.Google Scholar
Rummel, Erika, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).Google Scholar

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