Show university of oxford old seat of learning the university in the modern sense dates to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as an outgrowth of earlier schools in connection with cathedrals and monasteries this despite the fact that a number of Euro european penn universities have bave legends carrying their origin considerably farther back as tor for instance oxford whose tradition Is that it was founded by king alfred about oxford dates however to early in the twelfth century the uni universities of paris and ami bologna which exercised the greatest influence upon the later institutions were founded about 1200 the oldest spanish university Is that of salamanca dating to 1240 the earliest italian ver sites besides bologna were padua 1222 naples 1224 1204 I 1 genoa 1213 1243 an nod d ile perugia bugla 1270 bout about ten others were founded in that country before 1550 and italy was the greatest resort of students for the higher education during those times the university of prague was established in 1348 the first college at li bridge in hl 1237 1257 and tire the versi y of ja Ta tavielle gielle in cracow chacow pa poland in 1361 the university of co dates to 1470 1479 and of Edir edinburgh ibur ir to |