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Letter: University challenge.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)
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May 19, 2003
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Sir: Charles Clarke's reference to the "medieval concept" of the university as a community of scholars (letter, 17 May) not only has pejorative overtones, but it also misrepresents the position of the universities since the foundation of the earliest - Bologna, Paris, Montpellier, Oxford and Cambridge - between 1180 and 1209.
Mediaeval universities were established as corporations of masters and students and from the very beginning have served and interacted with society. From the 13th century onwards, especially in England and France, they became a source on which ...
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