• Foreword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Jacques Verger; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Paolo Nardi; 4. Management and resources Aleksander Gieysztor; 5. Teachers Jacques Verger; Part III. Students: 6. Admission Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 7. Student education, student life Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 8. Careers of graduates Peter Moraw; 9. Mobility Hilde de Ridder-Symoens; Part IV. Learning: 10. The faculty of arts Gordon Leff; 2. The Quadrivium John North; 11. The faculty of medicine Nancy Siraisi; 12. The faculties of law Antonio García Y. García; 13. The faculty of theology Monika Asztalos; Epilogue: the rise of humanism Walter Rüegg.

"This volume, the first of four parts of a general history of the European university, belongs in every college, university, and seminary library....it presents a comprehensive social, cultural, and to some extent intellectual history of the development of instutionalized higher learning in Europe from the time of the founding of the University of Bologna in the late twelfth century to the rise of Humanism around 1500." Susan Rosa, Sixteenth Century Journal

• Foreword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Jacques Verger; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Paolo Nardi; 4. Management and resources Aleksander Gieysztor; 5. Teachers Jacques Verger; Part III. Students: 6. Admission Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 7. Student education, student life Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 8. Careers of graduates Peter Moraw; 9. Mobility Hilde de Ridder-Symoens; Part IV. Learning: 10. The faculty of arts Gordon Leff; 2. The Quadrivium John North; 11. The faculty of medicine Nancy Siraisi; 12. The faculties of law Antonio García Y. García; 13. The faculty of theology Monika Asztalos; Epilogue: the rise of humanism Walter Rüegg.

"This volume, the first of four parts of a general history of the European university, belongs in every college, university, and seminary library....it presents a comprehensive social, cultural, and to some extent intellectual history of the development of instutionalized higher learning in Europe from the time of the founding of the University of Bologna in the late twelfth century to the rise of Humanism around 1500." Susan Rosa, Sixteenth Century Journal

• Foreword Walter Rüegg; Part I. Themes and Patterns: 1. Themes Walter Rüegg; 2. Patterns Jacques Verger; Part II. Structures: 3. Relations with authority Paolo Nardi; 4. Management and resources Aleksander Gieysztor; 5. Teachers Jacques Verger; Part III. Students: 6. Admission Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 7. Student education, student life Rainer Christoph Schwinges; 8. Careers of graduates Peter Moraw; 9. Mobility Hilde de Ridder-Symoens; Part IV. Learning: 10. The faculty of arts Gordon Leff; 2. The Quadrivium John North; 11. The faculty of medicine Nancy Siraisi; 12. The faculties of law Antonio García Y. García; 13. The faculty of theology Monika Asztalos; Epilogue: the rise of humanism Walter Rüegg.

"This volume, the first of four parts of a general history of the European university, belongs in every college, university, and seminary library....it presents a comprehensive social, cultural, and to some extent intellectual history of the development of instutionalized higher learning in Europe from the time of the founding of the University of Bologna in the late twelfth century to the rise of Humanism around 1500." Susan Rosa, Sixteenth Century Journal