Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . f course it is no exclusively English word. Thename, Universitas, is as old as the Pandects of Jus-tinian, where it stands for much the same thing asCollegium, a corporation of any kind. Its applicationto scholastic corporations began with the first Italianuniversities, Salerno and Bologna. In the Anglo-Latin law of the twelfth century it was familiarlyapplied to any body of men who possessed a collectivelegal status and rights which could be legally enforcedagainst individua

• Contributor: The Reading Room / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: 2AJ42F8
• File size: 7.1 MB (348.1 KB Compressed download)
• Releases: Model - no | Property - no
• Dimensions: 1324 x 1887 px | 22.4 x 32 cm | 8.8 x 12.6 inches | 150dpi

More information

This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. Alamy charges you a fee for access to the high resolution copy of the image.

This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.

Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . f course it is no exclusively English word. Thename, Universitas, is as old as the Pandects of Jus-tinian, where it stands for much the same thing asCollegium, a corporation of any kind. Its applicationto scholastic corporations began with the first Italianuniversities, Salerno and Bologna. In the Anglo-Latin law of the twelfth century it was familiarlyapplied to any body of men who possessed a collectivelegal status and rights which could be legally enforcedagainst individuals or other corporations. The Uni-versitas may be a town, a county, a guild. Noverituniversitas vcstra, Know all of you, in a writ isthe customary mode of addressing an organised collec-tion of individuals. The word has no specific meaningwithout a defining genitive. A teaching Universitas is a guild of scholars, Universitas Scholarium. Like a trade or craft guildit makes its own conditions of membership ; it makesby-laws for its own government; it exacts fees ofits members, and it jealously excludes outsiders from. ST. BENETS CHURCH THE WANDERING SCHOLARS 13 meddling in its business. Like a trade guild it hasits apprentices— pupils they were called in theUniversity guild — and its duly qualified masters.The apprentices in either case, whatever their pro-ficiency, have to learn their trade for seven yearsbefore they can become masters, whether in the art of a craft or the liberal arts of science andhumanity. The individual master or the guildmay on its own authority commit the apprentice togaol if he misconducts himself: and the same poweris constantly exercised by the Chancellor and Mastersof the University. Usually the apprentice lives withhis master, who is bound to give him instruction.The guild usually has a hall for its general meetings, possibly a chapel and one or more chaplains. Other-wise it will assemble for secular as well as religiouspurposes in a parish church :