Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval university

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval universities. Within the 11th and 12th centuries a brand new kind of institution began to seem within the main cities of Europe. The very first universities were these of Bologna and Paris; within a hundred years comparable educational organisations had been springing up all more than the continent. The first universities primarily based their research around the liberal arts curriculum, a mix of seven separate disciplines derived through the educational theories of Ancient Greece.


The universities provided coaching for all those intending to embark on careers in the Church, the law and education. They provided a new focus for intellectual life in Europe, and exerted a substantial affect on society around them. And also the university model proved so robust that many of those institutions and their medieval improvements nonetheless exist today.



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With:
Miri Rubin
Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London

Ian Wei
Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History at the University of Bristol

Peter Denley
Reader in History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Producer: Thomas Morris.