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  • 3 - The University of Paris during Calvin’s Life

  • from Part I - France and Its Influence
  • Edited by R. Ward Holder
  • Book:
    John Calvin in Context
    Published online:
    14 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 25-33

  • Summary

    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.