List of medieval universities
The list of medieval universities leads to all universities that existed in the Middle Ages. It also includes short-lived start-ups and educational institutions whose university status is not yet clear from the research concludes. The University with its own organizational structure and its liberal self-understanding is a product of the mainly Christian Middle Ages. Until 1500, the existence of more than eighty universities is occupied, which were mainly located in Western and Central Europe. With the subsequent colonization of America, the University is brought to the New World and thus launched its global distribution as the highest educational institution of the present ( see List of oldest universities).
Definition
A short definition of the University, its components, how they have evolved since the Middle Ages, which offers multi-volume History of the University in Europe, the European Rectors' Conference:
" The university is one, indeed the European institution par excellence: As a community of teachers and learners, special powers of self-government, the formulation and implementation of curricula and research objectives as well as the awarding officially recognized academic degrees, it is a creation of the European Middle Ages. ..
No other European institution such as the University has with their traditional structures and their scientific achievements throughout the world gained universal recognition. The titles of the medieval university, bachelor, licentiate, master's degree, doctorate, are recognized in a variety of political and ideological systems. The four medieval faculties of theology, law, medicine, and the Artes have indeed partially received other designations. For example, the Faculty of Arts was the philosophical, to that of lettres, sciences, humanities. Many, especially social sciences and technological disciplines were added, but form the old faculties still around the world at the core of universities. Even the name of the universitas, which was used in the Middle Ages for cooperatives of various types and accordingly initially designated only the corporate organization of teachers and students, received over the centuries an intellectual appreciation: As universitas litterarum embodies the university since the 18th century, the Institution which has to maintain all of the sciences and to mediate. "
List
The list is sorted by the date of recognition. Where more than one university was established in a place, the name of the institution is in parentheses.