1158 AD
Constitutio Habita and protection for scholars
Law & constitutions · Ius commune, educación y jurisdicción
Frederick I issued the Constitutio Habita in 1158, an imperial privilege protecting traveling students and teachers and providing jurisdictional rules. It mattered to the legal status of communities of study; it should not be treated as the single founding act of a modern university.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- www.unibo.it (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- 2026-09-23
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