The University medieval

Students who flocked to Cambridge soon organized their curriculum after the pattern that has become common in Italy and France, and they would have known at Oxford. They studied first what would now be called "basic training" in the arts - grammar, logic and rhetoric - followed later by arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, which leads of varying degrees of bachelor and master. There were no teachers was conducted by teachers who themselves have gone through the courts and that has been approved or authorized by the whole of their colleagues (the universitas or university ). Education took the form of reading and explanation of the texts, examinations were oral debates in which the candidates put forward a series of questions or theories that they supported or contested with opponents a little above them own, and finally, with teachers who had taught them. Some of the teachers, but not all, has pursued advanced studies in divinity, the canon and civil law, and, more rarely, medicine, which were taught and examined in the same way by those who have already crossed the threshold and become doctors. The doctors themselves grouped into faculties.

It soon became necessary to prevent abuse of royal privileges conferred on scholars, to identify and authenticate the degree to which people had been granted. Subscribe to a licensed captain was the first step in this direction, he was called baccalaureate because of the condition that the name of the scientist should be placed on the mastery matricula or roll, but later, the University itself assumed this service. It is also desirable to mark the step in a progression of the scholar with a ceremony for admission (reclassification) for the different grades, diplomas or accession. These have been conferred by all teachers, with Chancellor wield power on their behalf, as his deputy, the Vice-Chancellor, has come to do so later. The qualities as a researcher has become distinguished by a series of variations on the robe, hood and cap. Reminders of these terms and practices to survive today.

The Regent Masters, who were teachers, quickly found that more than a ceremonial head they needed other representatives to speak and act for them. The first of these were the two Proctors (literally representatives) who are elected annually to negotiate on their behalf with the city and lay the other authorities, to keep the accounts to safeguard their treasures and books, reviews moderate, and overseeing all other ceremonies. Those rights were soon to be shared by other elected officers: Bedells, initially attached to the Faculty, presided over the ceremonies, and a chaplain was charged with treasures and books. By the sixteenth century, a Registrary inscriptions recorded entries degrees, and the decisions of the regent masters, while a ceremonial Orator wrote letters and addresses. Most of these offices remain today, although in some cases, for the purposes of ceremonies.

A community of such complexity of the rules. To this end, as problems arise, the statutes have been adopted by the entire body of the University. It was not at first arranged or codified, but were found at random in books kept by the Proctors. The oldest known version of these decisions is a copy made in the mid-thirteenth century, which is now in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome.