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  2. List of medieval universities - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of France: Paris, France: The school predates the foundation of the university proper and is attested in 1045 [12] which places its founding before that. The faculty and nation system of the University of Paris (along with that of the University of Bologna) became the model for all later medieval universities.

  3. Medieval university - Wikipedia

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    A map of medieval universities in Europe. The university is generally regarded as a formal institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting in Europe. [7] [8] For hundreds of years prior to the establishment of universities, European higher education took place in Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools (scholae monasticae), where monks and nuns taught classes.

  4. History of education in France - Wikipedia

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    In the early modern period, colleges were established by various Catholic orders, notably the Oratorians.In parallel, universities further developed in France. Louis XIV's Ordonnance royale sur les écoles paroissiales of 13 December 1698 obliged parents to send their children to the village schools until their 14th year of age, ordered the villages to organise these schools, and set the wages ...

  5. History of European universities - Wikipedia

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    Logotype of the University of Bologna. European universities date from the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088 or the University of Paris (c. 1150–70). The original medieval universities arose from the Roman Catholic Church schools.

  6. School of Chartres - Wikipedia

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    The Chartres school placed special emphasis on the quadrivium (the mathematical arts) and on natural philosophy. [1] Chartres' greatest period was the first half of the twelfth century, [1] but it eventually could not support the city's large number of students and its masters lacked the relative autonomy developing around the city's other ...

  7. School of Saint Victor - Wikipedia

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    The name also refers to the Victorines, the group of philosophers and mystics based at this school as part of the University of Paris. [1] It was founded in the twelfth century by Peter Abelard's tutor and subsequent opponent, the realist school master William of Champeaux, and a prominent early member of their community was Hugh of St Victor. [2]

  8. Collège des Quatre-Nations - Wikipedia

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    The name of the college alludes to the four nations of students at the medieval Parisian university. It was not intended for students of the historical university nations, but for those coming from territories which had recently come under French rule through the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

  9. Sorbonne University - Wikipedia

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    Chapel of the main Sorbonne building. Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université) is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the University of Paris, one of the first universities in Europe.