Editing Studium generale (section)

== History ==
[[File:Estudio General de Alcalá de Henares (20-05-1293) promulgado por Sancho IV de Castilla.png|thumb|upright=1.1|{{Lang|la|Studium generale}} of [[Alcalá de Henares]], May 20, 1293]]
Most of the early ''{{Lang|la|studia generalia}}'' were found in [[Italy]], [[France]], [[England]], [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]], and these were considered the most prestigious places of learning in [[Europe]]. The Vatican continues to designate many new universities as ''{{Lang|la|studia generalia}}'', although the popular significance of this honour has declined over the centuries.

As early as the 13th century, scholars from a ''{{Lang|la|studium generale}}'' were encouraged to give lecture courses at other institutes across Europe and to share documents, and this led to the current academic culture seen in modern European universities.

The universities generally considered ''{{Lang|la|studia generalia}}'' in the 13th century were:
* [[University of Bologna]] (founded in 1088)
* [[University of Oxford]] (founded in 1167)
* [[University of Cambridge]] (founded in 1209)
* [[University of Palencia]] (founded in 1212)
* [[University of Paris]] (founded in 1215)
* [[University of Arezzo]] (founded in 1215)
* [[University of Salamanca]] (founded in 1218)
* [[University of Padua]] (founded in 1222)
* [[University of Naples Federico II]] (founded in 1224)
* [[University of Toulouse]] (founded in 1229)
* [[University of Northampton (13th century)|University of Northampton]] (founded in 1261, closed in 1265)
* [[University of Siena]] (founded in 1240)
* [[University of Valladolid]] (founded in 1241)
* [[Schola Medica Salernitana|University of Salerno]] (uncertain)
* [[University of Montpellier]] (founded in 1289)
* [[University of Coimbra]] (founded in Lisbon in 1290)
* [[University of Alcalá]] (founded in Alcalá de Henares on May 20, 1293)

Both theological and secular universities were registered. This list quickly grew as new universities were founded throughout Europe. Many of these universities received formal confirmation of their status as ''{{Lang|la|studia generalia}}'' towards the end of the 13th century by way of [[papal bull]], along with a host of newer universities.  While these papal bulls initially did little more than confer the privileges of a specified university such as Bologna or Paris, by the end of the 13th century universities sought a papal bull conferring on them {{Lang|la|ius ubique docendi}}, the privilege of granting to masters licences to teach in all universities without further examination (Haskins, 1941:282).

Universities officially recognized as ''{{Lang|la|studia generalia}}'' in the 14th century were several, among them:
*[[University of Lleida]] (founded in 1301)
*[[Sapienza University of Rome]] (founded in 1303)
*[[University of Perugia]] (founded in 1308)
*[[University of Florence]] (founded in 1321)
*[[University of Pisa]] (founded in 1343)
*[[Charles University in Prague]] (founded in 1348)
*[[University of Pavia]] (founded in 1361)
*[[Jagiellonian University|Jagiellonian University in Kraków]] (founded in 1364)
*[[University of Vienna]] (founded in 1365)
*[[University of Heidelberg]] (founded in 1386)
*[[University of Zadar]] (founded in 1396)