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1318 Confirmation of Studium Generale status

A Studium Generale was originally a Studium attracting an international clientele, but it came to mean a school with at least two of the senior faculties of theology, law and medicine.

While the standing of Cambridge as a Studium Generale was confirmed in the 1318 Papal Bull, granting the University the ius ubique docendi and other privileges, Rashdall suggests that Cambridge probably possessed all the characteristics of a Studium Generale already in the thirteenth century. For example, In 1290 Pope Nicholas IV had described Cambridge as a Studium Generale in a letter to the canons of the Order of Sempringham.

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