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 european universities have legends carrying their origin considerably farther back as for instance oxford whose tradition Is that it was founded by king alfred about at oxford dates however to early in the twelfth century the ties of paris and bologna which exercised the greatest influence upon the later institutions were founded about 1200 the oldest spanish university Is that of dalania salamanca aca dating to 1240 the earliest italian ver yer sites besides bologna were padua 1222 naples 1224 genoa 1243 and perugia 1270 about ten others were rounded 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 1343 the first college at cambridge in n 1257 ond ind the university of jashelle Jas Jag lelle in cracow chacow poland in 1301 the university of copenhagen dates to 1479 and of edinburgh to 1582 |