Part of the curriculum of this studium was relocated in 1288 at the studium of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which in the 16th century world be transformed into the College of Saint Thomas ().

The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral, arguably making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia followed by studium generales in Uppsala in 1477 and Copenhagen in 1479.

A studium generale ( a medieval university education ) was founded in 1425, although it was not until 1438 that education was started by the Franciscan order for a baccalaureus degree.

" The word universitas originally applied only to the scholastic guild ( or guilds )— that is, the corporation of students and masters — within the studium, and it was always modified, as universitas magistrorum, or universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium.

This was a revolutionary step: studium generale ( university ) and universitas ( corporation of students or teachers ) existed even before, but after the issuing of the bull, they attained autonomy.

Alfonso was the founder of the first Spanish university, a studium generale at Palencia, which, however, did not survive him.

Reflecting on the relationship between the obvious symbolic meaning of a photograph ( which he called the studium ) and that which is purely personal and dependent on the individual, that which ‘ pierces the viewer ’ ( which he called the punctum ), Barthes was troubled by the fact that such distinctions collapse when personal significance is communicated to others and can have its symbolic logic rationalized.

The University of Turin was founded as a studium in 1404, under the initiative of Prince Ludovico di Savoia.

The studium was further supported when, in 1252, Pope Innocent IV declared both its teachers and students completely immune from taxes and forced labour levied on their person or property by the city of Siena.

In 1321, the studium was able to attract a larger number or pupils due to a mass exodus from the prestigious neighbouring University of Bologna when one of its students was sentenced to death by Bologna's magistrates for supposedly kidnapping a young woman.

The studium of Siena was eventually promoted to the status of " Studium Generale " by Charles IV, shortly after his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in 1355.

The first university in Spain, the studium generale of Palencia was founded by Alfonso VIII in 1208 ; however, the school did not long survive him.

In 1265 in accordance with the injunction of the Chapter of the Roman province of the Order of Preachers at Anagni, Thomas Aquinas was assigned as regent master at the studium conventuale at Santa Sabina: “ Fr.

At this time the existing studium conventuale at Santa Sabina was transformed into the Order's first studium provinciale, an intermediate school between the studium conventuale and the studium generale.

But the new studium at Santa Sabina was to be a school for the province ," a studium provinciale.

In 1577 the studium at Santa Maria sopra Minerva was transformed into the Collegium Divi Thomae.

The existing studium conventuale at Santa Sabina was thereby transformed into the Order's first studium provinciale, an intermediate school between the studium conventuale and the studium generale.

The University of Prague adopted the division of students into nationes: from its opening in 1349 the studium generale which consisted of Bohemian, Bavarian, Saxon and Polish nations.

One of the " free " universities of Italy, it was erected into a studium generale on September 8, 1308, by the Bull " Super specula " of Clement V. A school of arts existed about 1200, in which medicine and law were soon taught, with a strong commitment expressed by official documents of the City Council of Perugia.

( 1832 – 1916 ), the newly elected and seventy-sixth Master General of the Order of Preachers, to develop the College into a studium generalissimum for the entire Dominican Order: " Romae erigatur collegium studiorum Ordinis generalissimum, auctoritate magistri generalis immediate subjectum, in quo floreat vita regularis, et ad quod mittantur fratres ex omnibus provinciis.

The Convent of St. Jacques, would eventually become the Order's first studium generale.

In May 1220 at Bologna the Order's first General Chapter mandated that each new priory of the Order maintain its own studium conventuale thus laying the foundation of the Dominican tradition of sponsoring widespread institutions of learning.

The Convent of St. Jacques, would eventually become the Order's first studium generale.

In May 1220 at Bologna the Order's first General Chapter mandated that each new priory of the Order maintain its own studium conventuale thus initiating the Dominican tradition of sponsoring widespread institutions of learning.

The General Chapter of 1304 mandated that each of the Order's provinces establish it own studium generale to meet the demand of the rapidly growing membership of the Order.

The official foundation of the Dominican convent at Santa Sabina with its studium conventuale, the first Dominican studium in Rome, occurred with the legal transfer of property from Honorius III to the Order of Preachers on June 5, 1222 though the brethren had taken up residence there already in 1220.

More particularly the Angelicum's origin can be traced to the founding of the first Dominican studium conventuale in Rome at the basilica of Santa Sabina in the year 1222, where " sacred studies flourished ".

To this period while Aquinas was Regent master at the studium of Santa Sabina can be attributed an impressive list of other works including the Catena aurea in Marcum, the De rationibus fidei, the Catena aurea in Lucam, the Quaestiones disputate de potentia Dei, which convey the contents of disputations Aquinas held during this period at Santa Sabina, the Quaestiones disputate de anima, which were held at Santa Sabina during the academic year 1265-66, Expositio et lectura super epistolas Pauli Apostoli, the Compendium theologiae, the Responsio de 108 articulis, part of the Quaestiones disputatae de malo, the Catena aurea in Ioannem, the De regno ad regem Cypri, the Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis, and at least the first book of the Sententia Libri De anima, Aquinas ' commentary on Aristotle's De anima, the translation of which from the Greek was completed by Aquinas ' Dominican associate at Viterbo William of Moerbeke in 1267.

With the departure of Aquinas for Paris in 1268 and the passage of time the pedagogical activities of the studium provinciale at Santa Sabina were divided between two campuses.

In 1288 the theology component of the provincial curriculum was relocated from the Santa Sabina studium provinciale to the studium conventuale at Santa Maria sopra Minerva which was redesignated as a studium particularis theologiae.

In 1288 the theology component of the provincial curriculum for the education of the friars was relocated from the studium provinciale at the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina to the studium conventuale at Santa Maria sopra Minerva which was redesignated as a studium particularis theologiae.

But the new studium at Santa Sabina was to be a school for the province ," a studium provinciale.

It was while teaching at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale that Aquinas began to compose his monumental work, the Summa theologiae, which he conceived of specifically as a work suited to beginning students: " Because a doctor of catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but to him pertains also to instruct beginners.

Nicholas Brunacci was among Aquinas ' students at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale and later at the Paris studium generale.

He may also previously have been the author of the document known as the alia lectura fratris Thome while a student of Aquinas at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale.

Alexander IV, by the Papal Bull of 21 June 1260, recognized this foundation as a generale litterarum studium and granted its members certain dispensations in the matter of residence.

Officially established as a studium generale by the Holy Roman emperor Charles IV ( r. 1355-78 ) in 1361, the institution was enlarged and renovated by the duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti ( ruled 1385-1402 ), becoming the Duchy's sole university.

The studium generale, by contrast, would take students from all regions and all countries.

Gregory XI, by Brief of October 11, 1371 gave the privileges of a studium generale to the new faculty of theology.

The studium at Santa Maria sopra Minerva was raised to the level of studium generale for the Roman province of the Order by the year 1426 and continued in this roll until 1539.

In May 1539 during the general chapter of the Order at Rome Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda, former student and subsequently renowned professor of theology at the College of San Gregorio at Valladolid was awarded the title of Master of Sacred Theology by the studium generale at Santa Maria sopra Minerva Giacomo Nacchiante ( 1502 – 1596 ) was appointed professor of philosophy and theology at the studium in 1541.

" Cormier responded by stating his intention to establish this new studium as the principal vehicle of dissemination of orthodox Thomistic thought not only among the Dominicans, but also among the secular clergy.

Pope Alexander IV, by the Bull of 21 June 1260, recognized this foundation as a generale litterarum studium.