A French Professor Emeritus on Tertiary Education in Medieval Times

As the two prefacers to the Romanian edition argue, the Middle Ages are renowned for setting up higher education as an establishment called university compared to the Academy of the Antiquity. The university resembles a corporation and the author focuses on the feature in its mission to train professors and students so as to serve various public institutions. Excellency is its aim and it comes along with the legitimacy of intellectual work. Meant to introduce us to a work initially published in the 70s when the sub-field was untackled by French historiography, which then became popular, hence the four later editions, the Romanian translation was carried out as part of a research project, The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: Making Professors at the University of Vienna, 1389-1450 between UBB and The Romanian Academy in Cluj 1 . In the introduction to his work, Jacques Verger points out that his approach goes for universities as cultural craddles of civilisation in which a chapter of the general history of philosophy, law or sciences