1088 Institution

University of Bologna

Name: University of Bologna
Start: 1088

Europe’s oldest university is born around the study of the Digest: Roman law becomes a living science again.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1088 — the context national timelines leave out.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

What was written of it

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.

Simone Weil 1943

The Need for Roots

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