from Part I - France and Its Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2019
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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