Abstract
The article examines the university, its origins; it makes a brief historic report and after that deals with the ius ubique docendi that meant autonomy, in force during the middle ages. It shows changes resulting from Illuminism and from the Protestant Reform, the abandonment of the universitas scientiarium and the transformation of the university into a group of colleges together. It discusses after that the goals of the university and the different views about them, the problems connected to the transmission of culture, scientific investigation, transmission of knowledge and of the teaching of the professors. It analyses the study of Roman Law, the research about the corpus iuris civilis , from the middle ages up to the present days, the glossas , the mos italicus and the mos gallicus . The medieval and modern views of the study of the Roman Law and its reflexes in Europe and in Brazil. It ends by highlighting the importance of the study of Roman Law and Latin for the preservation a culture based in Rome and Greece.
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