. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. HISTORY OK THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD CHAPTER I. Oxford in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries—The Domesday Survey—The Castle—Origin of the mediafval Universities—The Systemof Academical Degrees—Regents and Non-Regents—Origin of thedifferent Faculties—Ecclesiastical Authority at Paris—The earliestSchools at Oxford—Subjects of Study—Robert Pullus—Vacarius—Civil Law and Canon Law—Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln—Giraldus Cambrensis—A foreign Student at Oxford—CosmopolitanCharacter of the mediaeval
. A history of the University of Oxford : from the earliest times to the year 1530. HISTORY OK THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD CHAPTER I. Oxford in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries—The Domesday Survey—The Castle—Origin of the mediafval Universities—The Systemof Academical Degrees—Regents and Non-Regents—Origin of thedifferent Faculties—Ecclesiastical Authority at Paris—The earliestSchools at Oxford—Subjects of Study—Robert Pullus—Vacarius—Civil Law and Canon Law—Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln—Giraldus Cambrensis—A foreign Student at Oxford—CosmopolitanCharacter of the mediaeval HE University of Oxford did not spring intobeing in any particular year, or at the biddingof any particular founder: it was not estab-lished by any formal charter of its rise in a small and obscure asso-ciation of teachers and learners, it developed spontaneouslyinto a large and important body, long before its existencewas recognised by prince or by prelate. There were cer-tainly schools at Oxford in the reign of Henry I., but the li 2 THE TOWN OF OXFORD. previous history of the place does not throw much light ontheir origin, or explain the causes of their popularity. The town seems to have grown up under the shadow of anunnery, which is said to have been founded by St. Frides-wyde as far back as the eighth century. Its authentic annals,however, begin with the year 912, when it was occupied andannexed by Edward the Elder, King of the West Saxons.*To him is doubtless due the great mound at its westernextremity, which must have been thrown up in order tocommand the
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