Western Civilization I / Unit 11 WC1 1032 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Abelard, Bologna, Paris: The First Universities
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The idea
Peter Abelard, ten seventy-nine to eleven forty-two, applied reason to faith at Paris and angered the hierarchy. Universities grew from cathedral schools as guilds: Bologna chartered in eleven fifty-eight, Paris by about twelve hundred, the Sorbonne a college within it from twelve fifty-seven.
In practice
Degrees, exams, robes, the trivium and quadrivium.
Where people slip
The anchor calls the Sorbonne the university. It was a college.
Your place on the trail
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