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Rh had been preceded by Scholæ (schools), or Studia, in which particular branches of learning were taught by independent and insulated teachers. This was inconvenient to those students who desired to obtain instruction in more than one of the then usual faculties, or subjects of scholastic teaching. Hence two or more schools or atudia sprang up in the same city, until at last there appeared doctors or teachers, and masters in all the four faculties, or studia, viz. Theology, Law or the Decretum, Medi- cine, and Arts. The School then became a Studium generale, or Universitas studiorum, from which came in after times the name "University."

Thus Bologna (Bononia), founded in 1 129, was famous at first for the School of Civil Law, established and presided over by the celebrated Wernerius, who revived the study of the Justinian Code, and attracted to his lectures an immense body of students of