Abstract
A fourteenth-century Spaniard desiring to obtain information regarding the University of Salamanca, before sending his son there to be educated, could well have consulted Las siete partidas del rey Don Alfonso el Sabio, if he had had access to a copy of this work, for some of its sections might have served as a catalogue of this institution. Las siete partidas, one of the numerous projects of Alfonso el Sabio which made an immense contribution to European culture, was ostensibly a compilation of the laws of the realm undertaken to unify these laws, but fortunately for us it developed into much more than a mere code of laws. Its explanations of the laws and incidental suggestions provide a vivid and varied picture of medieval life in Spain. Alfonso discusses institutions of higher learning at some length because, as he says, the learned men can be of use to their country, as it is guided by their counsel. First, he defines estudios; they are assemblies of teachers and students in
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